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Professional Coin Grading Service

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  • Professional Coin Grading Service has 2.6 star rating based on 7 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.

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  • Pros: Nice encapsulated coin.
    Cons: Customer service.

  • Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "hire a secretary to help you.", "Do not trust PCGS, they will steal your rare coins!", "Use a different grading company", "Use NGC", "Don’t Do Business With PCGS".

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Janmichael Nki
map-marker Memphis, Tennessee

My fault for not doing my homework on your protocols. SORRY

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I got ahead of myself. am 74 with; dyslexia. I have since tried to study the requirements and have been packaging my coins in more suitable plastic containers and cataloging them.

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User's recommendation: hire a secretary to help you.

Gina S Nrk

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| map-marker Los Angeles, California

PCGS stole our rare coins!!!

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Updated by user Mar 18, 2025

PCGS was contacted by the Better Business Bureau on our behalf. PCGS never responded.

After leaving several messages for over a month, PCGS finally returned our call and refused to refund our money for the coins they lost!

These were our inheritance! We are now seeking legal advice.

Original review Feb 25, 2025

We submitted our coins in person to PCGS to have our coins graded by the next day. We paid over $2670 in grading fees and a requured $69 membership fee.

PCGS sent an email confirmation that they received our coins, graded them, and are now ready for pickup. We drove over 3 hours to pick our coins up only for PCGS to tell us they suddenly lost them.

We filed a claim as instructed by PCGS however PCGS later denied us a refund of our grading fees and the fair market value of our submitted coins which were estimated at a minimum of $10,350 by several other numismatics.

We believe our coins were stolen by PCGS based on how rare these coins were and how many private collectors showed extreme interest in them.

We will not stop sharing our story until we get what we are owed by PCGS.

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User's recommendation: Do not trust PCGS, they will steal your rare coins!

Butch W Umb

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| map-marker Las Vegas, Nevada

Mislabeled 2023P extra V Penny

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Professional Coin Grading Service - Mislabeled 2023P extra V Penny
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Sent in for grading was issued a First Strike but no extra V in the label contacted customer service sent pictures but no response from them. Not happy they have devalued this coin think that it took a month and a half to grade the coin they would get it right going to send it to a more reputable company like NGC for a regrade which I should have done in the first place. Goodbye PCGS

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User's recommendation: Use NGC

Anonymous
map-marker Pikeville, Kentucky

Recently received order

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I was told my order would take around 30 days turnaround time and instead it took 5 months in which time I could barely ever get ahold of any customer service rep to talk to for an explanation. Some of the worst customer service I have ever received.

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User's recommendation: Use a different grading company

Gregg J Olf

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Bad Customer Service

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Gregg Jones

Mar 9, 2023, 08:42 PST

I submitted a coin for what I believed to be a Kennedy half dollar on the wrong planchet. I am not a expert on coins and dont care to be.

When I submitted the coin, I had put a questionable comment on the form order number 2310**** about the submission. I was shocked that the coin was not weighed to measure the weight of the coin, and if this would had been performed the inspector would had known the coin was underweight. 8.8 grams vs 11.3 grams. I had contacted PCGS about the weight before it was shipped at your location and was told that this could not be done.

I was then t hold that if something was not correct to send it back to be regraded. If the coin was misgraded it would be redone to check my concerns and I would not be charged. We I called your location after I received the coin and it was not recorded to be on the quarter stock . So yes I was incorrect on my discrepancy but again how do you not weigh the coin for authenticity?

Please help me understand this. Now Im told I will have to pay another $65 dollars to send the coin back to you. This is what I believe not to be a good workable decision. I would have know problem paying if I had sent a coin that I had not questioned in advance by paper and phone conversation.

This is not about getting something for free, but the correct validation of my coin., Needless to say I am extremely disappointed in your company. Gregg Jones Amateur Coin Collector

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Loss:
$60
Pros:
  • Nice encapsulated coin
Cons:
  • Customer service

User's recommendation: Don’t Do Business With PCGS

Karen P Lmv
map-marker Indianapolis, Indiana

They just graded my coins I haven’t gotten back yet this company is a fraud and I will take my complaint to my attorney general here in Indiana

They just graded my coins I havent gotten back yet this company is a fraud and I will take my complaint to my attorney general here in Indiana this company is a fraud and they are committing fraud to you the American people these people should be ashamed what they done to the American people like I said I will take my coins into my attorney general And let him file suit against Pcgs

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Preferred solution: I’ve been into the metal business all my life I have been a inspector with fine metal this company is a *** fraud

Angel G Yog

Try ANACS or NGC avoid a headache.

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Paid $1,200 to get 20 coins graded. 14 coins had mistakes and 6 were wheat pennies with no errors.

The 14 error coins were $65.00 per coin for a total of $910.00. The wheat pennies were $35.00 per coin for the sum of $210.00 plus return shipping fee for $33.00 and $37.00 extra because the error coins had to be sent elsewhere for grading. When I received all the graded coins the coins were graded opposite to my submission form for they graded my wheat pennies at $65.00 each and the 14 coins with the errors at $35.00 each. None of the error coins were identified as having errors on the capsules from PCGS.

The grading was bogus because the one example that lets anybody that deals in this hobby is a 1982 D small date zinc coin that had doubling on the mint mark and doubling on the reverse on E PLURIBUS UNUM and it was returned to me as a 1982 D small date bronze penny that can sell at an auction house between $18,000.00 and $30,000.00 and that is one of the major ones of the grading that lets me know my money was taken without the service that I paid for. The 1982 D penny is zinc.

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$1
Reason of review:
Not as described/ advertised

Preferred solution: Full refund

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Anonymous
map-marker Newport Beach, California

PCGS : Professional Coin Grading Service inconsistent and unresponsive

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This company grades and encapsulates rare and collectible coins. They are considered by many to be the "gold standard" in this field.

My complaint is their inconsistency in grading and failure to answer e-mails pertaining to several different subjects. For those who are not familiar with coin grading, be advised that an increase of a single grade can often cause huge gaps in the pricing structure. Coins are graded numerically with uncirculated coins scoring from 60-70 and all points in between. I submitted for grading a very scarce coin.

expecting a grade of 66. Receiving a 65, I resubmitted the coin 3 more times, each receiving the same grade. OK, that must be it ( I guess ) $125 total. So I sold the coin ; only to have it appear in the very next auction by the auction house, regraded higher by PCGS (like I thought all along).

The coin then sold for $2500.00 more than I received simply due to the "change" in "grade" over the course of a month ??... PCGS - Inconsistent and unresponsive and I'm out over $2500.00

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Loss:
$2625
Cons:
  • Inconsistent coin grading
Reason of review:
Poor customer service

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