Questions about NGC on site grading

[Mrpound]

Right so while I’m sat here filling out ngc forms to submit a few coins I’ve been saving up for grading I’ve had a few questions jump out at me so I thought I would put them to the knowledge of you guys to see if you can help a brother out 🤔

1. London on site grading - is this at the coin fair which is hosted 4 times a year at the holiday inn? Or at London NGC?

2.If it is at the coin fair at the NGC booth and do they grade and incapsulate onsite or do they send off from there?

3. If they don’t grade on-site can you arrange to pick up your slabbed coins at the next coin fair for example?

4. Should I just not bother grading and save myself the headache and anxiety waiting for months to see if I’ve been screwed again?

Many thanks ☺️ 

Edited November 27, 2022 by Mrpound

[Petra]

🫢 you’ll never get to touch them ever again!🤔😁 if you are going to sell them on, is the extra money involved worth it, especially if you don’t get the grades you expect/hope for?🤔

[Mrpound]

7 minutes ago, Petra said:

🫢 you’ll never get to touch them ever again!🤔😁 if you are going to sell them on, is the extra money involved worth it, especially if you don’t get the grades you expect/hope for?🤔

🤣 I’ve done it before and the answer is no it isn’t really worth it only on the odd occasion it is, but these are going to be all for me 😏🤤

[Simmoleon]

Do you have pics of the coins you are grading so I can offer an opinion for what it’s worth on Q4?

[Mrpound]

5 minutes ago, Simmoleon said:

Do you have pics of the coins you are grading so I can offer an opinion for what it’s worth on Q4?

Q4 is more of a joke I’m going to grade regardless just need help with the other 3 questions 🤣

[Simmoleon]

4 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

Q4 is more of a joke I’m going to grade regardless just need help with the other 3 questions 🤣

I was just being nosey tbh

[Mrpound]

12 minutes ago, Simmoleon said:

I was just being nosey tbh

I’ll show you one of them 😏

[Simmoleon]

9 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

I’ll show you one of them 😏

Nice clean example, fingers crossed this and the rest grade well mate

[Mrpound]

@GoldDiggerDave would you happen to know?

[GoldDiggerDave]

5 hours ago, Mrpound said:

Right so while I’m sat here filling out ngc forms to submit a few coins I’ve been saving up for grading I’ve had a few questions jump out at me so I thought I would put them to the knowledge of you guys to see if you can help a brother out 🤔

1. London on site grading - is this at the coin fair which is hosted 4 times a year at the holiday inn? Or at London NGC?

2.If it is at the coin fair at the NGC booth and do they grade and incapsulate onsite or do they send off from there?

3. If they don’t grade on-site can you arrange to pick up your slabbed coins at the next coin fair for example?

4. Should I just not bother grading and save myself the headache and anxiety waiting for months to see if I’ve been screwed again?

Many thanks ☺️ 

1 they collect at the London coin fair but to my knowledge they do all the grading in the the US.

2 if only it was that simple, no see 1 

3, if you have the ultimate membership you can arrange a collection from their London office, however they close or don’t have appointments on coin fair/event days. I doubt they would arrange a drop off but it’s worth asking.

4, that one is up to you, it’s great when you get the results you want not so good if you don’t. 
 

they don’t tend to grade well with large scratches, just had a quick look at your photo and there looks to be a scratch across the face on the obverse. Not wanting to bash another man’s coin but to me this looks a good candidate for the dreaded AU details. 

 

 

[Mrpound]

9 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

1 they collect at the London coin fair but to my knowledge they do all the grading in the the US.

2 if only it was that simple, no see 1 

3, if you have the ultimate membership you can arrange a collection from their London office, however they close or don’t have appointments on coin fair/event days. I doubt they would arrange a drop off but it’s worth asking.

4, that one is up to you, it’s great when you get the results you want not so good if you don’t. 
 

they don’t tend to grade well with large scratches, just had a quick look at your photo and there looks to be a scratch across the face on the obverse. Not wanting to bash another man’s coin but to me this looks a good candidate for the dreaded AU details. 

 

 

Thank you very much for your input I knew you were the right man for the job that’s answered what I needed to know, no that’s fine your opinion was wanted! I’ll be getting that one graded anyway to see how it dose as abit of a bonus coin really, the others are more important 🤣

[GoldDiggerDave]

9 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

Thank you very much for your input I knew you were the right man for the job that’s answered what I needed to know, no that’s fine your opinion was wanted! I’ll be getting that one graded anyway to see how it dose as abit of a bonus coin really, the others are more important 🤣

Good luck  let me know how you get on.  It's all wildly subjective.  

[goldhunter]

15 hours ago, Mrpound said:

Right so while I’m sat here filling out ngc forms to submit a few coins I’ve been saving up for grading I’ve had a few questions jump out at me so I thought I would put them to the knowledge of you guys to see if you can help a brother out 🤔

1. London on site grading - is this at the coin fair which is hosted 4 times a year at the holiday inn? Or at London NGC?

2.If it is at the coin fair at the NGC booth and do they grade and incapsulate onsite or do they send off from there?

3. If they don’t grade on-site can you arrange to pick up your slabbed coins at the next coin fair for example?

4. Should I just not bother grading and save myself the headache and anxiety waiting for months to see if I’ve been screwed again?

Many thanks ☺️ 

With reference to Q4.My most recent submission arrived back at the London office in a month.NGC has stated their aim to speed up grading times. Here's hoping this will continue as grading lead times are a frustration to us all I,m sure.

[Mrpound]

2 hours ago, goldhunter said:

With reference to Q4.My most recent submission arrived back at the London office in a month.NGC has stated their aim to speed up grading times. Here's hoping this will continue as grading lead times are a frustration to us all I,m sure.

That would be nice If that dose as I’m sure my last submission took around 4 months 🥱

[GoldDiggerDave]

32 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

That would be nice If that dose as I’m sure my last submission took around 4 months 🥱

My submissions take anywhere 7-14 weeks.....just collecting the with the train strikes and cancellations is a nightmare.   

 

[Mrpound]

39 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

My submissions take anywhere 7-14 weeks.....just collecting the with the train strikes and cancellations is a nightmare.   

 

I feel you! Currently on a train, first time in a while everything has gone to plan 😱

[GoldDiggerDave]

4 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

I feel you! Currently on a train, first time in a while everything has gone to plan 😱

Mate don't get me going, 5 of the last 6 trains have been cancelled......the last train I got on to got to London never left the station they point blank cancelled the service which left me no other option but to go home it was too late to arrange anything else..........And it still cost me £12 to get the car back out of the carpark.    

And booking first-class makes no difference the trip before was first-class return and it was mobbed as they had cancelled the train before and the declassified the service what a F ing joke that was. 

 

[Simmoleon]

2 hours ago, Mrpound said:

That would be nice If that dose as I’m sure my last submission took around 4 months 🥱

My last few have all taken 2 months regardless what grading service I put them on but have included conservation

[Mrpound]

3 hours ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

Mate don't get me going, 5 of the last 6 trains have been cancelled......the last train I got on to got to London never left the station they point blank cancelled the service which left me no other option but to go home it was too late to arrange anything else..........And it still cost me £12 to get the car back out of the carpark.    

And booking first-class makes no difference the trip before was first-class return and it was mobbed as they had cancelled the train before and the declassified the service what a F ing joke that was. 

 

It is a disgrace anyone from another country where the train actually run on time would be amazed how bad our transport system is

[Leonmarsh]

On 27/11/2022 at 12:31, Mrpound said:

I’ll show you one of them 😏

Looks cleaned to me from the pics so would come back AU details so no point grading 

[Leonmarsh]

13 minutes ago, Leonmarsh said:

Looks cleaned to me from the pics so would come back AU details so no point grading 

Is it cleaned ? Maybe take some more photos ? 

[Mrpound]

2 minutes ago, Leonmarsh said:

Is it cleaned ? Maybe take some more photos ? 

Just sent some videos 😜😂

I don’t think it looks it but then again I’ve been caught out once before 😅