{Category Archives} Coin Certification or Grading
Luster, Eye Appeal Key to $3 Gold Coins - NumisMaster
Aug 25 at 9:09pm
In this column, I’ll discuss grading $3 gold pieces; but first, a few words of warning are in order.
Three dollar gold pieces have been extensively counterfeited. You should be especially wary of the following dates: 1854, 1855, 1857, 1874, 1878 and 1882. The quality of fakes seen for these dates varies with some 1882s being perhaps the most deceptive even today. Now let’s talk about grading.
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PCGS Returns First Strike® Inserts to Collector Club Members - Coin News
Aug 20 at 2:02pm
The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) has announced the return of First Strike® inserts to current and future submissions for members of the PCGS Collectors Club. Ron Guth, President of PCGS, said in an e-mail announcement Tuesday…
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Third Party Grading, Visited - John Feigenbaum’s Ramblings
Aug 12 at 12:12pm
I was asked a very interesting and challenging question today by Steve T., a collector of certified U.S. coins and customer of ours for just over 2 years. First, Steve was disappointed because he had cracked an NGC MS61 gold piece out of its holder and submitted it PCGS — and it graded AU58. We had originally sold him the coin and he wanted to know if we would allow him to return it. In other words, “would we guarantee the grade of the coin?”
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NGC announces new coin holder design - Coin News
Aug 2 at 12:12am
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) announced an innovative new coin holder at this year’s ANA World’s Fair of Money® in Baltimore.
The most significant visible improvement is NGC’s EdgeView® design that suspends a certified coin within prongs, much like a ring holds a diamond. The new technology enables clear viewing of the encased coin’s edge.
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Differences between coin wear, friction subtle but distinct - Coin World
Jul 28 at 1:01pm
There are distinct but often subtle differences between wear and friction, two factors that affect a coin’s grade.
Experts contacted by Coin World are mostly in agreement with what the two terms mean, and even mention specific series that are affected by each.
But, advanced and beginning collectors should be cautioned that it is no easy task to differentiate between wear and friction.
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DGS Making Progress - Coin Collector’s Blog
Jul 21 at 10:10pm
Last February, the owners of David Lawrence Rare Coins bought the assets of PCI, the fledgling grading service from suburban Atlanta, Georgia in an absolute sale auction. DLRC then packed up the assets and moved the service to their location in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Rather than trying to rescue the PCI name, DLRC President John Feigenbaum later announced that the service would be rebranded as Dominion Grading Service (DGS) and begin accepting grading submissions in May.
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Mint quality difference can be sign of fake - Numismatic News
Jul 21 at 10:10pm
It cannot be repeated enough how important it is for an authenticator to know what genuine coins look like in order to make correct determinations about the coins he or she is shown. Coins have dozens of attributes associated with their style, color, fabric, shape and execution, just to name a few. “Mint quality” is the catch-all term we coined to take in all these characteristics as they appear on a genuine coin.
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Online Auction Features New DGS-Graded Coins - NumisMaster
Jun 23 at 7:07pm
DLRC Auctions offers over 100 coins in Dominion Grading Service slabs this week in its Internet Only Auction that closes June 26. The new DGS grading service has been in operation a short time and is pleased with the public response.
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