PCGS offers this option, obviously NGC does not, don't know why exactly. One order looked interesting shared, very high end: Line #Item #Cert #PCGS No.CoinDateDenominationVarietyCountryGrade 11253348917300 1921-S $1USAMS65 21253348927515 1851-DG $1USAGenuine - UNC Details (95 - Scratch) 31253348938358 1882 $5USAMS64 41253348947973 1855-S $3USAAU50 51253348958192 1839-C $5USAGenuine - XF Details (92 - Cleaned) 612533489610136 1860 $5Clark GruberUSAGenuine - AU Details (92 - Cleaned) 71253348979027 1895 $20USAMS64 81253348989149 1908-S $20USAAU58 91253348998533 1929 $5USAGenuine - UNC Details (92 - Cleaned) 101253349008564 1801 $10USAGenuine - AU Details (98 - Damage) 1112533490110252 1852 $10Moffat, Close DateUSA86(Authenticity Unverifiable) https://www.pcgs.com/Membership/sharedorder.aspx?OrderNo=90159047 Message here to me is the submitter figured a walkthrough was the best shot at the best grades, he hit the success in a number of items, he probably was quite happy with those that worked for him but it cost him the steep walkthrough fee around $150 each coin. Anyone else have observations on the submission or the value of a shared orders page?
I dont understand what a shared order, or what this has to do with NGC. can you please explain further
OK; people send in their coins to get graded. The grading service gives an option that if you want to share the results with the coin community you can do this or not. This makes other submitters aware of certain results. Does this help or hurt in terms of educating people on the grading process and results?
I don't think it makes a bit of difference either way. If people want to share their grading results they are going to share them, whether they do it by allowing others to see the grades as they are posted or after they get the coins back - result is the same. And if they do not want to share, then they don't. The real question is can people learn from looking at graded coins ? Yes, of course they can. But they have to already know what they are looking at - in other words already have a good understanding of grading and be able to tell if the grades are accurate or not, and do so based on a picture - or odds are they won't learn much, or anything, by looking at the graded coins. If people want to learn they need to look at coins in hand, and not just pictures of them.
