Bennett

I want to input my two cents and suggest that NGC go full steam ahead, and not try to rollback any of the changes. It's not surprising there's a few bugs; it would be surprising if there weren't. Once the kinks are worked out, this system will give me lots more control over my collection to the point that I plan to delete the spreadsheet I currently use to track all my coins.

I'm not a computer expert, but I suspect some of the slowness is just everyone inputting coins under the new format. That will probably level out over time.

To follow up on my earlier post, I'm now getting a $0.00 value for almost all older raw coins in lower grades. Probably an easy fix.

I've been experimenting with entering raw coins and it's mostly very easy. One problem I've had is that two coins I've entered--both are raw liberty nickels graded VG-8--don't show a value. I know the online price guide has values for these coins, so that's not the problem. Thanks again for this new service.

First of all, congratulations to NGC on this new effort. I'm excited about the changes and am already entering my raw coins into the new collection software.

I do have a question, and it may just be something I'm missing because I haven't fully explored the new setup. Is it possible to take raw coins I have entered and have them "fill a slot" in a series set, the way we currently do with competitive sets? I'm hoping this is the case, so I can see how "complete" my various sets are, whether graded or not.

If this is not currently possible, I hope it's in the works. There's seems to be two ways to go about this. One would be to allow raw coins to be entered into existing competitive sets (for 0 points of course, and you could even hide them from public view). Another is to allow the creation of custom sets that have the same pre-existing "slots" that the competitive sets have.

Again, thanks for the changes and I look forward to figuring them all out.

I notice that some grading companies allow you to send in a coin in a holder that you think is undergraded, and they'll consider regrading it for a fee.

On the other hand, you can break a coin out of its holder and send it in as if it were being initially graded.

Which approach is better, in the sense that it's more likely to result in a higher grade?