April 4 – 7, 2012 (Wednesday-Saturday) • The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas NV • Lido Room #3105
Reserve Your Room ASAP - Deadline for Special Room Rates is March 13, 2012!
Coin enthusiasts love the PCGS Members Only Coin Show! PCGS Authorized Dealers can buy, sell and trade coins in a relaxed, unhurried setting. Collectors Club members can have your coins graded on-site, check dealer inventories for potential purchases, and enjoy the camaraderie of your fellow collectors. All while enjoying the sights, sounds and tastes of Vegas. And admission is free to all Collectors Club members! Click here for more information.
From January 1 through March 31, 2012, PCGS Collectors Club Members can take advantage of our new PCGS Quarterly Special. For three months (January-March), Collectors Club members can receive 50% off of our TrueViewTM Services! The TrueView service gives collectors digital, high-resolution images of each coin they submit. For three months, members receive half off the TrueView price per coin and there is no limit on the number of submissions!
But don't delay; all orders must be postmarked by March 31, 2012. Click HERE for details and submission instructions.
PCGS has expanded our successful PCGS Secure Plus™ Program to include all service levels. Our Secure Plus Service is available for coins submitted under Grading and Regrading submission types and if you wish to Crossover a coin into a PCGS Secure Plus holder, there is an additional fee of $10 per coin. The expanded services includes Modern for $20 per coin, Mint Errors at $65 per coin, Special Issues at $65 per coin and Show Economy at $75 per coin (5-coin minimum).
Click here to learn more about PCGS Secure Plus.
Filled with colorful images of coins ranging from record-setting rarities to beautiful yet affordable U.S. coins, the 2012 PCGS calendar a must for every numismatist. The calendar makes it easy to keep track of all the major coin shows taking place in the U.S., and includes the dates of the PCGS Members Only Shows in Las Vegas. All PCGS Authorized Dealers and Collectors Club Members have been sent one with our compliments; the cost of additional calendars is $7.00 ($10.00 for non-PCGS Collectors Club members). Order today.
PCGS will recognize all five coins as 25th Anniversary coins if they are submitted in their original, unopened mint packaging. Since the "S" mint and Reverse Proof have only been made for the 25th Anniversary set, they can be sent in from an opened mint package and still receive the 25th Anniversary designation; however, the other coins in the set cannot. In order to have all five coins designated as 25th Anniversary they must be submitted in their unopened mint packaging.
All five of the coins are eligible for recognition as First Strike. Standard First Strike rules apply; see our submission form to select this option.
For submission instructions and coin numbers, click here
PCGS Secure Plus is the most reliable protection you can give your coins. With the PCGS Secure Plus™ service, each coin (both sides) is laser scanned, imaged, and registered into the Secure Plus data base. A metallic analysis can also be performed to help detect counterfeit or altered coins. If a coin has been tampered with, it will be revealed. And now, high-quality images of all coins submitted under Secure Plus are available under Cert Verification on the PCGS website, free of charge.
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Effective November 15, 2011, all non-U.S. coins dated prior to 1955 will be required to go through our PCGS Secure Plus™ Service. Coins minted after 1955 with a declared value of less than $1,000 are eligible for our Regular Modern service level (this includes Chinese coins as well).
PCGS is proud to announce our new expanded Genuine program. At no cost to you, we are now offering three Genuine service options for collectors to choose from. The three options include: 1) Standard Genuine service (default); 2) Genuine with Details; or the 3) Do not holder Genuine-only coins. The Genuine with Details option will print the coin problem as well as a details grade (we will not be using numeric grades). An example of Genuine Details would be "Cleaned – XF Details."
These changes will go into effect immediately. For more information, please contact Customer Service at info@pcgs.com or call 800-447-8848.
To equip yourself with the info you need during any coin negotiations, you need PCGS CoinFacts™. It has everything you want to know about 30,000 U.S. coins - including prices, populations, recent auction prices realized, images...everything.
Now, you don't have to wait until you're at a computer. And Mobile CoinFacts is FREE for all PCGS CoinFacts subscribers.
Just call up the app at m.pcgscoinfacts.com and get all the facts about all U.S. coins – including yours! Click here for more information.
As of August 1, 2011, PCGS will recognize and designate the Light Satin Finish as warranted, on all America the Beautiful 5 oz. coins. There will be no additional error or variety fee, just the standard grading fees. These coins are eligible for First Strike designation for an additional $18. NOTE: there is a $20 oversized holder fee on all 5 oz. coin submissions.
To submit your America the Beautiful 5 oz. coins, please follow these guidelines.
PCGS continues to be at the forefront of the fight against counterfeit coins. Effective August 1, 2011, PCGS will introduce some important changes to help combat this insidious problem.
•PCGS Secure Plus™ will be expanded to include Economy-level submissions. •Plus grading will be offered for all Economy submissions for both Standard and Secure Plus services at no extra charge. •No-grade "Genuine" coins will now be allowed in Secure Plus holders. •All Chinese coins must be submitted through the Secure Plus service.
Click here for details.
Collectors are now sending their America the Beautiful 5-ounce coins in to PCGS for certification and encapsulation in our new, special holders.
Effective May 1, 2011 all America the Beautiful 5-ounce coins will have a mandatory $20 fee for the oversized holder (per coin).
To submit your America the Beautiful 5-ounce coins, please follow these guidelines.
The new PCGS statistics page provides a daily snapshot of PCGS grading. Up-to-date information including the total number of coins graded, their value, and current submission turnaround times can all be found on this page. You can also see the successful percentage rate of all crossovers. Find all you want to know HERE.
PCGS certification verification has been enhanced to help you determine if a coin being offered to you is genuine. Now when a certification number is verified, not only will the system provide the basic coin information such as type, date, and grade, but the system will also search the PCGS database of almost two million auction records and will provide a link to any auction that the coin has appeared in.
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Effective immediately, PCGS will recognize Prooflike (PL) designations for 2009 Ultra High Relief (UHR) $20 gold coins. Also, effective immediately, PCGS will recognize Prooflike (PL) and Deep Mirror Prooflike (DMPL) designations for 2010 5 oz. America the Beautiful coins. Many of these business strike coins were minted from highly polished dies and warrant special recognition. All submissions automatically qualify for these new designations without any additional fees.
On February 1, 2011, PCGS began offering a new Collector Club membership level. The Diamond membership includes everything that a Platinum-level membership offers, plus a one-year subscription to PCGS CoinFacts™. Ever since we launched PCGS CoinFacts, we have been receiving requests to combine the subscription and membership programs. This is exactly what the new Diamond level membership does.
Click here to learn more about this special new offering.
PCGS is now attributing Liberty Seated half dollars by their Wiley Bugert numbers. Randy Wiley and Bill Bugert's excellent study of Liberty Seated half dollars, published in 1993, identified 378 varieties of this popular series. They have since identified many additional varieties for both the San Francisco and Carson City mints. At this time PCGS will recognize all the varieties listed in their original book only. To request a WB variety with any standard service, simply check "Variety Attribution" on the submission form. For more information about our Variety Attribution service click here .
The American Numismatic Association's 2011 Sacramento National Money Show features some of the world's most valuable and historical coins and paper money, even presidential autographs. It includes a world-class auction by Heritage Auction Galleries and hundreds of dealers and vendors. The phenomenal coins include the Idler/Bebee 1804 dollar, the McDermott/Bebee 1913 Liberty Head "V" nickel, the 1787 Brasher Doubloon with "EB" on eagle's breast (the first gold coin made for the United States) and the Tom Bender $3 Gold Collection at the PCGS booth. Click here for more information.
Missing Edge Lettering variations on Presidential Dollars have been attracting a lot of attention lately, along with higher prices for the affected coins. PCGS now recognizes several categories of Presidential Dollar edge lettering variations as errors, including the lettering missing altogether. In addition, qualifying coins are now eligible for a special Presidential Dollar Edge Error Registry set.
Click here for submission guidelines and a list of Missing Edge Lettering categories recognized by PCGS.
We're pleased to introduce the PCGS Daily Rare Coin Market Report. You can have it delivered right to your Inbox every day (or weekly if you prefer).
The new RCMR gives you the information you need to make decisions about coins, and have fun doing it.
Click here to sign up, and start receiving your RCMR tomorrow. What a great way for a coin enthusiast to start the day!
PCGS CoinFacts™ is compiling a Condition Census for every United States coin... a list of the ten finest known specimens for all U.S. coins including Colonials, Patterns and Territorials. It's a massive multi-year project. A lot of the work has already been done and you can view it at pcgscoinfacts.com. But there's still a lot of work to do, including imaging all of the Condition Census coins. We need images and if you have a Condition Census coin, we can image your coin and promote it on the PCGS CoinFacts website.
Click here for more information.
