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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 5989527, member: 24091&quot;]The problem there arises with cost.&nbsp; If they are resubmitted raw, there&#039;s some chance there won&#039;t be any grade gain, and will actually become less valuable because they are in a new holder graded under looser standards.&nbsp; If they are submitted for reconsideration, there&#039;s a much better chance of it upgrading but with a hefty value-added charge assessed on the invoice.&nbsp; Is it worth, say, $500 to have PL added to the slab?&nbsp; IDK, kind of hard to rationalize it, though people do that all the time on some real high end coins to gain a point.&nbsp; There&#039;s all sorts of examples with US rarities from the 18th century where there is provenance trail with the coin climbing the grade scale each time it appears at auction.&nbsp; It&#039;s ridiculous, but it happens and every sophisticated bidder knows it before bidding.&nbsp; Never-the-less, the TPG service still collects a huge premium on the upgrade.&nbsp; That happens with world coins too, the October 2020 sale at MDC Monaco had a number of extremely rare and valuable coins (mid 6 figures) that had previously resided in lower graded holders.&nbsp; That&#039;s what is so nice about CAC on the US side of things, it essentially lends the same pop of an upgrade from the TPG service but at a tiny fraction of the cost.&nbsp; Unfortunately, they don&#039;t do foreign coins, and while there is WINGS (and I own a couple with their sticker) for foreign coins, their sticker does not carry anywhere near the panache that a CAC sticker does for comparably valued US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no question PL coins are more desirable than the same coin with regular frosty surfaces.&nbsp; The PL implies (rightfully so) that the coin was struck with fresh dies, something always more desirable all else being equal.&nbsp; It does, however, at times result in bidders paying too much for the coin just for the PL designation.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a pair of DWI 50 Franc coins sold 7 months apart at Heritage in 2019.&nbsp; The 63PL at NYINC, the 64 at ANA.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think there is any question the MS64 is worth every penny of the $1.20 extra it fetched over the MS63PL.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1244166[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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