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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2746916, member: 77639&quot;]With PCGS, I always use regrade rather than reconsideration.&nbsp; With reconsideration, you&#039;ll be charged the 1% increase&nbsp; in value if it goes up; this isn&#039;t the case with regrade.&nbsp; True, a coin can&#039;t go down in grade with reconsideration, but it can with regrade.&nbsp; However, if it goes down in grade with regrade, they pay you for the decrease in value.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never had a coin go down in grade with regrade, but have had them go up.&nbsp; However, downgrading can and does occur.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of other advantages with regrade: a. you get a nice new holder whether the grade changes or not.&nbsp; b. For only $5, you can get PCGS Secure and will almost always get a free high resolution photo with it.&nbsp; There is no guarantee for the photo, but I&#039;ve always gotten one.&nbsp; With reconsideration, you can have Secure only if it upgrades unless you want to pay the $5 plus an additional $12 for reholdering.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also feel the graders are less biased if they see the coin out of the holder, even if they know the previous grade.&nbsp; If they are staring at a coin in a holder, they have to decide very consciously that the current grade, which is right in their face, is wrong in order to upgrade it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where might reconsideration be an option?&nbsp; It would be in several circumstances: a. where a downgrade would break your heart even though you&#039;d receive monetary compensation, b. where you think the current holder itself (e.g. a rattler) adds value regardless of grade, c. fear of negative changes in grade or designation for which you&#039;d not receive compensation (e.g. browning of copper, different Judd number), d. you&#039;re interested in only a suffix upgrade (e.g. CA to DC), but don&#039;t want to risk the numerical grade going down even though you&#039;d be compensated, e. don&#039;t agree with the compensation schedule.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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