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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1076363, member: 19423&quot;]To add further to Doug&#039;s post, PCGS did abandon their COLOR guarantee on copper coins to a great extent.&nbsp; But they now only cover the COLOR for coins owned by you prior to 2009 I think (cant remember the exact date).&nbsp; So all of my copper PCGS coins I bought prior to the cut off date are still covered by their full guarantee.&nbsp; However, if I took one of those coins and sold them to Doug, PCGS wouldn&#039;t cover the COLOR of the coin any longer as he would have aquired the coin after the cut-off date, even if the coin was in an older green holder and clearly graded prior to the cut-off date.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What hasn&#039;t been tested by me personally (or any others that I&#039;ve heard of) is how PCGS will treat a grade guarantee submission of a MS67RD Lincoln Cent that has been acquired by the owner after the cut-off date of the COLOR guarantee and has since turned in the holder.&nbsp; PCGS is clear that they no longer would guarantee the COLOR designation, but from what I have read, it seems they would still guarantee the numerical grade of the coin.&nbsp; So if that MS67RD got all spotty and turned brown and wouldn&#039;t regrade any higher than MS63BN, what would PCGS do???&nbsp; They wouldn&#039;t pay the value difference between a 67RD and a 63BN, because color isn&#039;t covered, but would they still pay the difference between 67BN and 63BN because the numerical grade is guaranteed???&nbsp; That would be hard to do since there is no market value of the non-existent 67BN.&nbsp; My guess is that PCGS would be pretty fair in trying to buy that coin off the market since they probably don&#039;t want a really bad looking 63BN quality coin in one of there 67RD holders floating around the market if they can avoid it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Finally, it&#039;s important to note that in the past 25+ years PCGS has NEVER graded ANY Lincoln wheat cent as a MS67BN!!&nbsp; I doubt they will do so anytime soon.&nbsp; In that same period, they have only graded 62 Lincoln Wheat Cents as MS67RB (almost all of which are post-1939 examples).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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