I have some NGC 70ucams i want to send to pcgs. Based on my reading i hear it seems i am better off busting them out of the slabs. I would like to know the best way to handle and package these so as to giove them a fair shot at making the grade. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Ok, I know nothing about TPG's so this question is probably a stupid one? If they are already graded by NGC as a 70 why would you send them to PCGS and take a chance they would be graded lower? Thanks in advance for the explanation.
Yes that is what people say, personally I don't believe it. Be that as it may, your odds of having the coins cross are very slim, almost 0. PCGS just does not assign the 70 grade. So, in my opinion it is a waste of money even trying to do so. But if that is what you really want to do then do it this way. Leave the coins in the slabs, submit them. But submit them with the restriction that they cross or else no grade. That way, if PCGS disagrees that the coins are a 70, and they almost certainly will, they will be returned to you in the NGC slab and you will still have a graded coin. Do it the other way, by breaking them out, and you will have a coin slabbed as 69 DCAM and be out the grading fees to boot. Your choice.
More than likely it would get downgraded at PCGS--it is a rule of PCGS not to give out the 70 grade even if the coin is a 70. If you want to send it in then I would send it in still in the slabbed and mark on the form that if they don't grade it PF70 then don't crack it out---more than likely its worth more as a NGC 70 than as a PCGS69. Speedy
I can't even begin to imagine why you would do this. If a coin is already graded, slabbed and noted as anything, why take a chance on a lower grade, lost in the mail, stolen in the mail, additional money on grading and postage? Old saying: Let sleeping dogs lie.
