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Message:: [QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 1781316, member: 20480"]If you have Coinfacts, it isn't terribly hard to find examples of PCGS coins being broken out and successfully resubmitted for higher PCGS grades.  I have noticed and pointed out to PCGS many examples where multiple photos and cert numbers of the same coin in differing grades showed up in Coinfacts.  The redundant coins were deleted not long afterward. Still, there remain some examples where there are posted multiple photos and cert numbers of the same coin in the same grade, attesting to the number of times a coin would be resubmitted by some owners.  There may even still be some in different grades, indicating the upgrade took place. I can recall one instance where there were nine (yes nine!) cert numbers and nine pair of images for the same coin . . . eight were at MS62 and one at MS63.  With fewer than 25 total mint state coins in the pop report, most being MS62, and 8 of those being erroneously recorded, that MS62 was a glaring underrated coin.  Just like for other underrated dates and grades, I went shopping for MS62 examples of that coin once I realized how skewed the pop report was . . . never did find one, but am still looking, so I'm not publicizing that date. At least a lot of the erroneous information on the site has been cleaned up.   Not all of it, but it's certainly harder to find now than it once was. I imagine the same is probably true with NGC and Numismedia as well.[/QUOTE]