PCGS Website is Down

So they decided to go back and revive the only good part of their 1991 Expert System, the part that scanned the coins and created a digital fingerprint so they would be recognized if they were ever resubmitted. This is old stuff they were doing almost 20 years ago.

And the + is nothing more than half point grading. They have added seven more MS grades. So Uncirculated is now broken down into 17 grades.

Well the + means the grade is a half point higher. The * just means that it looks very nice for the grade that it is, not that the grade is any higher. Also the + means you are looking as a PCGS coin, the * means you are looking at an NGC coin.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

you dont think i should get a medal?

 

Conder

Your knowledge of the history of TPGs is always appreciated, especially when one of the grading companies comes out with something they claim is all new.:hail:

But to correct one thing, NGC is also going to + grading so Duke's thought that a coin could be both * and + is apparently plausible. (And a bit confusing). I understand * is supposed to denote special eye appeal but one can get quite confused when you consider that eye appeal is already part of the assigned grade, a point that PCGS again made clear in its recent posting on "Eye Appeal Does Affect a Coin's Grade".