The following is a Press Release from PCGS, announcing the launch of an updated Online Submission Center, making submissions intuitive and easy.
When PCGS first began accepting submissions in 1986, we came from a small network of coin dealers sending in coins via hand-prepared deliveries. Meanwhile, the internet was limited to a select group of universities, government agencies, and a handful of advanced private ventures that needed to stay connected. The rare coin market, built for decades around the sight-seen trading of coins graded mostly by individual sellers, was about to undergo a revolution with the advent of third-party coin grading. As sight-unseen grading was made safer with third-party grading, the internet was entering millions of homes and businesses and forever transformed the way people bought and sold coins.
The world has changed in the last four decades. So, too, has numismatics. Today, coin collectors and coin dealers rely on the internet for more than just buying and selling coins. It’s where they get their information on portals like PCGS CoinFacts or interact with other numismatists on forums like the PCGS Set Registry and PCGS Message Board. And now it’s where they can submit their coins for grading by PCGS, the world’s most trusted third-party coin grader.
“The PCGS Online Submission Center 2.0, or OSC 2.0, is a reimagination of the entire coin submission process,” says PCGS President Stephanie Sabin. “It makes submitting coins more convenient while giving you all of the necessary tools and resources to better plan for and organize your submissions to custom-tailor the submission experience to your unique needs.”
OSC 2.0 offers an items-first approach with service-level recommendations that allows you to generate multiple submissions via the innovative My Submissions Dashboard. The breakdown of these new features is as follows:
- Items-First Approach with New Keyword Search Functionality – Add all the items you want to submit, including U.S. coins, world coins, vintage, modern – you name it. You can filter these coins by category, like “Half Dollars” or “Nickels,” to refine your search. Responsive search results allow you to quickly highlight matching text. We’ve also increased the maximum quantity of items for a submission to 100, making it easy to submit bulk orders or even entire collections!
- Service Level Recommendations – OSC 2.0 recommends the most economical service level based on item details and declared value. You can quickly manage service levels individually or in batches, and a dynamic submission summary allows you to easily review your estimated subtotal as you adjust your service level selections.
- Generating Multiple Submissions – Conveniently add all of your items at once and automatically split submissions into multiple submissions as you add more items!
- My Submissions Dashboard – This personalized portal lets you see all your submissions in one place! Draft submissions will auto-save at each step and are valid for 120 days, letting you complete the submission process at your leisure without the stress of having to start over each time you return. You can easily access PDF forms and return to completed submissions to reprint your PDF submission forms, or you can return to submissions still in draft – pick up where you left off with up to 30 draft submissions saved at a time! You can even name your submissions, allowing you to stay organized.
“OSC 2.0 is the result of incredible feedback from so many of our customers and the hard work of the PCGS team, which is dedicated to making the submission process as efficient as possible,” says Sabin. “We know this is just the beginning, but we believe this will revolutionize the way the world submits their coins for grading. There’s nothing else out there like it in our hobby. The new PCGS Online Submission Center will make submitting coins for grading easier than ever.”
