I thought NGC would help me understand grading better. I guess they are too busy with slabbing a couple million Silver Eagles for the shopping channels......

I recently purchased an 1884 Morgan CC MS66 originally graded by NGC. When I received this coin it was so far and away better than any other MS66 Morgan I own my first thought was to send it in for another look. This coin looks as good as any MS67 I've seen.

Now granted, I am new at collecting after re-entering the hobby. It has been 35-40 years since I purchased my first coin and when I was a lad they went into a folder, not a slab!

The game is different now. I am trying to not only put great coins in my set for investment, but also to see how far I can move up in the world rankings (at least the world of NCS!).

So I submitted my coin for a regrade at MS67. I received the coin back a couple weeks later with nothing written on the invoice but "remains at MS66". Now I KNOW the good people at NGC are busy raking it in with the (In my opinion useless) grading of Silver Eagles for all the shopping channels and as such they do not have the time to treat every member like, well.....a valued member, but would it kill them to write two or three sentences as to why the coin didn't even move to a + grade? I have other NGC graded MS66 Morgans that look at LEAST a grade lower than the coin I re-submitted. I am trying to learn and I used the grading instructions from the ANA Grading Standards book and I just don't understand where this coin is not a grade higher.

If they would have taken just a couple minutes to add a narrative as to why the coin graded as it did I would have accepted that and felt like I learned something. All I feel now is frustration.

I am not going to the "Chat Boards" to post this and ask for feedback. I wanted feedback from the pro that graded my coin. I really wish I could have had the coin in hand at the FUN Convention to have Mr. Salzberg give me his two cents on it. He was way under utilized on the opening day of the show and I would have loved to spend five minutes with him.

This one instance may be the deal breaker for me to renew my membership when it is up this year. I probably won't be missed at all.....I just finished a survey from the US Mint and from the looks of it they are considering going the way of the Royal Canadian Mint and becoming the worlds next Franklin Mint. That will keep the peeps at NGC busy!