Comments on: Submitting Coins to NGC with Dealer Submissions

By: Michael Bugeja

Michael Bugeja — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:31 +0000

Thanks for your comment. My dealer mostly submits to NGC, and I mostly submit my coins through my dealer, as this last installment indicates. He just has a sense of what the grade is going to be, and he is almost always correct, again as I write in this series.

I use PCGS primarily for world coins 1700 through 2000; crossover coins [just sent 8 ANACS in holders to see how grades would come back--watch for a column on this in the future]; and 19th century raw coins about whose grade and mint state I am relatively sure. The reason for that is I can save $5 per coin submitting myself.

Hope this helps.

By: Western Sage

Western Sage — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:44:53 +0000

I have read the following statement in several of your recent columns – which I have found very interesting and helpful, by the way.

“As explained in my last post, I decided to join the PCGS club rather than the NGC society for direct submission privileges, not only because I was a member of the American Numismatic Association… ”

Maybe it’s just me, but I find this very confusing, because as you read the whole following articles, it is clear that you chose to use NGC to grade and slab your coins, not PCGS. Is this a typo, or am I just not understanding it correctly?

Thank You!