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Compared to many on this page I am quite a small time collector not having a large disposable income. However my collection is still quite extensive. I collect raw coinage like thousands of other collectors and house them in capsules. I take care when handling my coins and have learned to recognise grade and eye appeal. I enjoy other peoples input and help with my collecting and am learning continuously, as I am sure I will till I stop collecting or more than likely pass on to my kids. Surely most collectors still collect this way. I enjoyed using the population reports and the information on the CGS website but think the work ethic they have shown, and to me, the disrespect shown toward their customers in the way they have underhandedly pulled the rug out from everyone. LC and CGS were and still are the same people. The fee is in my opinion a ransom to previous customers and a block to many who would have thought of slabbing in the future. I will repeat what has been said above, it is everyone's decision how to spend their money. I just know that £99 to me is a major sum. I don't have to be reassured about grading as feel reasonably confident am happy collecting the old fashioned/ more common way. If I need a second opinion I am also happy to ask others. I certainly can't see how buying raw coinage is harder than encased ones. Except for the inflated prices that often come along with the plastic. Its about buying the coin not what its in. If the worry is dropping them place them in well designed capsules such as Quadrums. Many of the new generation capsules also have anti toning and Verde guarantees. So win win. Just my opinion

The point is Pete that nothing about their service has changed other than they want another £99 a year to view the coins you already own and have in your hand, as i said, it's an individual choice and not making an argument out of it I'm also having coffee

Absolutely stop on ! CGS/LondonConGradingService or whatever there name is now, have acted in an appalling manner IMO to there client base. I hope for their sakes that they are somehow compensated rather than penalised for the companies failings. And for people to still consider using this service baffles me.

PCGS has a 10 day turnaround, not 30, and you can see within 5 days the grade given. You also don't have to pay any extra to view the population report. In order to be able to send your coins in to PCGS you'd have to either become a member or send to London Coin Company, becoming a member at Gold level gets you 4 free gradings, each costing 35 euros, so the fee pays for itself. Their next grading week in Paris is sometime this month, sending to NGC from the EU will take a 6 week turnaround because they have no grading office in the EU and the coins must be shipped to the US of A

Keep smiling Brian its all good fun

Don't forget the £99 fee for the privilege of viewing them on their website afterwards Didn't they hang Dick Turpin?

The last pictures i had done was about December but i have traded/sold and added some since then. When the guy came it took him ages to set everything up ,so was waiting untill there were another hundred or so.

Unfortunately for me (yes i am daft) all of my grand daughters collection was stored on there site as dont have the coins to hand. Lesson learned as over the last week been able to record all the details seperately should i need the information in the future.

A few on the forum are in deep............Your making it sound like something terrible has happened I have just woke uip and had a coffee and just going to look through some coins , too see if there are any to send to them

I think firstly i'm going to mention the valuation, the company formerly known as CGS values their product, the valuations don't appear in any publications, so therefor it's their own opinion which doesn't match the market valuation, how many times have you purchased a CGS coin at say an 85 or so and paid the exact CGS valuation for it? The next thing from your post is the ability to view graded coins and their valuations within CGS, this was a free service and had run for several years or since conception of the company the bottom line for the change/charge is that Stephen Lockett thinks that people are undermining his other business of London coins by buying/trading their CGS graded coins. Do i want to see all my coins, this is a curious one, because i take all of my pictures i can see ALL my coins on my macbook anytime i wish without have to pay £99 fee for the privelidge, how can London coins stop you from y=taking your own pictures in a slab and posting it wherever you wish, this point i do find silly, coins can be swapped/traded by the owner of the coin regardless if it's slabbed by CGS/PCGS or NGC, those last 2 companies don't charge you to view their population reports. I don't think anyone is against anyone paying the fee, after all, it's your cash to throw around anyway you see fit, i just see the whole thing as an attempt to stem a flow that Stephen Lockett saw, the other thing that irks me about the whole thing is that it was supposed to be under new management, but it's still the same people, so i can't understand why the lies...... There is a huge conflict of interest with CGS and LC, they can grade their own coins for sale and slab what and how they see fit and charge you the earth for that, just saying, i've personally nothing against your post or how you spend your money, i'm only interested in coins and that people don't get ripped off (by anyone) or screwed by buying fakes etc.... In 10 years that £99 fee would have bought you a nice coin, but by buying into their regime you'll be over a barrel because you'll have so many slabbed by then that'll you'll have to continue even if you don't want to Peace

Another not so rare one from me. A 1951 Proof Farthing, purchased from my trip to the York fair last month. I just love the colours. The photo really doesn't do it justice