PCGS Return Unboxing Part:2 What did they GRADE?

Enjoyed watching your video. I hope you make more. It was different, Interesting, and fun to see how you were going to do. Thank you for sharing.

The one from Craig’s list what tooled mean was someone took a tool and etched around the stars and edges of the eagle to make it stand out and look nicer.

Really enjoyed your vid. Thanks for sharing with us...despite the outcome. Best wishes.

Great video! I'm super new at submitting coins to PCGS too. I'm learning a lot with these type of videos. Thanks for the info I really enjoyed the unboxing. Take care & I wish you the best of luck on your next submission. I'll be watching! :) GL & HH

Very happy with this and your part 1. They were very educational and informative, I liked following your thoughts before and after. I would have liked it if you had discussed the costs wrapped up in the grading process and why you chose PCGS over NGC. Looking forward to more vids like this. Thanks for sharing.

PCGS is tough on grading. I have seen where people have a NGC slabbed coin say at MS-60 and come back from PCGS at AU-58. I wish your grades would of been better. So many people are disappointed with their grades from grading company's. It is a very good video. It is educational for all who wish to send their coins off for grading. Thanks for the great video and again sorry for the end results.

You need to submit not one coin but multiple coins of the same date. You have to start with coins that are less in grade and work your coins up in grade. If you give the grader just one coin to the grade, he's going to grade the coin low. Start with an MS60 then say a coin you think is an MS62 and so on up the scale. When you submit your coins you determine the order in which they are chosen to be graded. That is the order you put them on your form. The lines are numbered just for that reason. And if you don't want the coin slabbed, mark the box ON LINE 6 DO NOT HOLDER GENUINE. Then send them off to NGC or ANAC for grading. ANAC is only a fraction of the cost. Then do a crossover to PCGS. If they come back with the curse of Graffiti, which is usually when some SOB has circled something or initials are scratched on the coin, you aren't paying the big bucks to get disappointed. As for color, find some old junk Lincolns and try cleaning them. Try the lemon trick or the vinegar baking soda Hydrogen peroxide method, and use the MS 70 solution. You will see just what happens to the coins and you get to see first hand what color (s) come from trying to clean them. Then try baking your coins or using a torch, or just check out all the ways to ruin your coins on YouTube. You need to learn these things or you will continue to buy cleaned coins and submit coins that will not grade and cost you an arm and a leg. They are strict for a reason, PCGS is the best for a reason, they don't let crap slip by. Try collecting two maybe three coins of the same date and submit them and watch to see how you did. I found grading your coins under the screen of your laptop is the best when it comes to seeing imperfections. I set the screen to a nearly all-white display, then set brightness to full and tilt the screen down and then grade my coin under that light. It's a different frequency light, That is how they grade coins, by that light. Not your Kitchen or bedroom light. Try it and you'll see your coins all together differently. First time sucks, you will begin to see coins in a whole new light, you won't be so fast to buy because of what you think, you'll buy because of what you know will grade and be realistic if someone says it an MS 67, take 4 off and offer them that price. Works for me.

Phoenix collector checking in, good set of videos, Thanks!

Welcome to the second half of your grading education! I was an "expert" on MS Morgan dollar grades until I got actual grading. Then I really started to learn. As for your batch...well a worn shiny coin was obviously cleaned! And microscopic scratches all in the same direction is something PCGS won't ignore.

TOOLED refers to either the smoothing of a coin's fields to remove scratches, corrosion and other forms of damage or to the restoration of lost details through use of a graver or knife. When a single side of the coin is affected, the terms OBV TOOLED and REV TOOLED are used.

I find it helpful in determining if a coin is cleaned to take a picture. Also i would suggest a 10 power loupe and good lighting for grading. Hope this helps.

Thanks for sharing. I know it's disappointing and I can hear the frustration. Congrats on your '21 SL which paid for the submission expenses. I hope you don't regret it overall. It's a fun learning experience at the very least. You have some beautiful coins here and I would definitely have sent them off too. I'm getting ready for my first coin submission and I'm thinking I can take the slow boat at NGC for around $30/coin, all in.

Ok I will comment and will be adding / editing this comment , so bear with me... The 50 Wheats are easy to get a good grade on the D and S mints..... The Philly's are more rare to get a high grade since they are kind of sloppy at that mint. I saw the 36 at that grade it's a great MS-63 for sure. I have a raw 54 S Wheaty that I thought was a MS-68, but looking at some PCGS slabbed coins on Ebay I changed my mind.....It's a 67 but I will never know cause i am not going to send it in with my W Lowell MS-67 quarter. They want me to be a member .... They mis lead me in a email saying they would give me a deal for a 20 dollar fee for grading my W quarter... The 1899 IHP maybe they thought it was dipped , not cleaned though. It would have come back CLEANED on the label.. I thought that was a straight up SLQ I thought cleaned when I saw it .....Bam I got that one ...Ok the second 1917 looked great to me , but the scratches on the reverse makes it Damaged or Graffiti ??...That's a 225.00 dollar coin Raw grade ..... NGC wouldn't give a graffiti grade ...Yes that 21 is well over 700 bux nice score on that one .. Raw price BTW... The Indian head nickel Is a straight up XF and I love the toning starting up on it ... I have a 30 S VF That has a lil over 5.4 million minted, Your 31 S is the only minted Buffalo nickel that was minted by only 1 mint that year, except for the 38 D over S which I don't see 2 mints for that 38 year....That's up in the air LOL... Barbers are my favorite, I only HAD 1 or 2 when I was younger.... A couple dimes from my Na Na (Godmother)in Cajun French .... She used to give me silver dimes for my B-Day and Christmas presents when I was a kid.... She knew I collected coins.... Ok now to the tooled, That means kind of improvements to the coin to maybe hide something or improve it ... IMHO ... Wow I thought the 1912 S half was gonna be Scratched details not cleaned .... SMH I like the Lady's ....LOL... Morgan's I mean .... THE 63 should be higher IMHO but it's hard for them to be higher for some dang reason .. Your 61 grade should be a notch above IMHO .... You have great coins right there... All of them are a venture back in time and you did a great video bringing us back in time with a lot of history Mon Ami .... I applaude you for that...

for the 1950-s, it graded a lot lower because of the big hit on lincoln's cheek. Thats a very grade-sensitive area on most coins, so you should make sure to check it before you buy a coin. Same with the 1936. There are tons of scratches on lincolns bust which is once again a grade-sensitive area. I recommend downloading the PCGS Photograde app, it really helped me because I used to struggle with grading. This is a great channel and I am a new sub.

And yes your grandfather's coin was either cleaned or stored in properly and they gave it a some kind of toning but I believe it was cleaned myself and they can tell believe me they know their metal

I had a similar issue with ANACS. Had a half dime come back "scratched". I could not believe it until I examined the reverse, and there was the small scratch. They were right. I was not as diligent with the magnifier as the coin looked nice with dark original toning. I do struggle with the "Questionable color". I have never been able to find a definition for this designation.

Thanks for the "What did they GRADE' videos. I just got back from a two day seminar at the FUN Show in Orlando. The course instructors where two guys that that have either worked at PCGS or now work at PCGS they have graded hundreds of thousands of coins. In short, the two guys cannot even conclude the same grade for a coin (most of the time). We graded many series of coins and I only got about 25% correct (the exact grade). A very good person who grades at PCGS is correct about 68% of the time (this is what my instructor told us). I will never buy an ungraded coin (unless of course the coin value of really low). In short, coin grading is extremely subjective! My instructor also told us that he cracks out coins and resubmits and resubmits until he gets the grade he was looking for.

Hi mate, I’m in Australia, you are lucky that you have such a long history of coins in America. No silver to be found in our change. I live near Perth mint, I love it there it’s honestly awesome, they have gold nuggets as big as a apple and every size in between. But I’m there for the coins. Better luck on your next batch you send in.

I would suggest a USB microscope and PCGS Photo Grading page to compare

absolutely hilarious.. thanks. crack the few on the bunk list and send them off again.