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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1329734, member: 66&quot;]PCGS grades roughly 150,000 coins a month.&nbsp; When they started they didn&#039;t want to be swamped by hundreds of thousands of coins that had no chance of being slabbed so they established the rule that only authorized dealers could submit.&nbsp; The idea behind this was that the dealers would act as pre-screeners to weed out to obvious problem coins and to try and dissuade the submitters from sending in stuff that wouldn&#039;t come back high enough graded to be worthwhile.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later they bowed to public pressure to allow direct submissions but instituted the membership fee to once again chase off the less serious, and to compensate them for having to wade through more chaff.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I am sure Doug is right about why they require the world coins to go through Secure Plus.&nbsp; They just really aren&#039;t qualified to do the world material.&nbsp; The higher fee chases some people off and makes sure they don&#039;t miss anything on the physical examination since they aren&#039;t familiar with how they should look.&nbsp; Just an added insurance policy to cover themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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