TIER OR TEAR

[pawnee101]

Just wondering if anyone had an oppinion (seriously) on the tier you submit a coin if it affects the graders final grade, for instance the Express Tier compared to the Economy one! If a coin was on the edge of a grade level, for whatever reason would the tier make some impact? Or has it in the past? A friend of mine suggested wrapping a coin in a hundred bill and then sliding it in the flip. don't think I am gonna do that! ha

[gmarguli]

Most of my biggest scores have been with coins submitted under a lower priced/value tier. While I am told the graders do know what tier the coins are submitted under, I don't think it makes much of a different. No grader is going to look at a coin and say MS62 oh wait, it was submitted under a high cost/value tier, must be MS63 instead.

 

Think of it this way, if you were in a dealers shop and saw a coin you were interesed in and you graded it MS63. Then the dealer prices it and it's priced at MS64 money. Do you change your grade because of what another person says it's worth?

 

The only tier that might has a small effect is show grading or submitting a modern coin thru the walk-thru service.

[Beijim]

I'm with Greg on this. My experience is that the tier makes no difference. I've submitted many coins at the lower priced tiers and received many appropriately high grades. If the tier were systemically influencing the grade, a pattern would be discernible over time, and NGC's credibility would suffer. I seriously doubt a company of NGC's caliber would engage in such a practice - doing so would in essence be no different than accepting a bribe.

 

Beijim