What advice do you have for a coin purchased on ebay certified by PCGS but the slab has scratches, especiallly over the coin's area? The description made no mention of the scratches, and the images were very unclear so they could not be detected. Will this deter a prospective buyer?
If you take the coin to a PCGS certified dealer, he should be able to get it put in to a new slab for just a couple of dollars plus shipping costs. If you are a PCGS member, you should be able to submit it yourself.
I have got too many coins in scratched slabs to count any more it's just part of the fact that the slabs get the scratches and the coins don't. As this is a easy problem to fix with Mequiar's PlastX available at most auto supply stores I do not see it as a problem. Oh that reholdering is ten dollars per slab plus shipping both ways and membership. The PlastX costs less per bottle than one reholder and I have been using the same bottle for several years now. And I polish about thirty or forty coins per month as I image that many on average.
Have it reslabbed. I had a great Merc, MS-68 FB like that. It's gone now, but I loved the coin. Ruben
you can cut a deal with a dealer who works with PCGS. Scasdale Coins is one, as I recall, around NYC. Ruben
