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New Website Goes Live

Whilst we wait for our latest submission at PCGS we’ve been secretly working on revamping The Purple Penny website. We’ve spent 8 years in the old shop but it was time to update and re-energise the design and processes within the website. As a result we’ve completely re-jigged everything from the shopping basket, checkout process, coin listings, layout and design. This should all provide a better and more streamlined customer experience. Moving to WordPress has had it’s challenges but internet, coding and php wizz Mark has been at the top of his game. Thanks to Marks hard work and backseat driving from myself the new site looks amazing. Our guide dog puppy Maisy thinks it looks good too!

With all new challenges we expect some teething problems. If you are having trouble with anything including making your purchase then please contact us and let us know. If you notice any problems them we’d also like to know what they are so we can rectify them promptly. If you love the new site you could always send us a message and tell us that too!

Many Thanks,

Kathryn

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The Purple Penny News

You might have noticed things on The Purple Penny website have been a little quiet lately for new high quality PCGS graded coin stock. This is because PCGS are experiencing a high workload and the turnaround time for our coins has blown out for some submissions to over double what the usual time is.

Easily viewed on the PCGS Statistics page the grading times for regular submissions which is usually 15 business days has blown out over double at 33 business days and economy submissions at a target of 20 business days are coming in at 42 business days. Add a week each way for shipping and an extra week for PCGS to recognise our submission after delivery then you can see the turnaround for coins to be graded by PCGS can blow out to over 3 months! So be patient with us, new stock will be arriving soon.

On the other side of things accessory sales are doing well as collectors are realising the true value of ridding their collections of pvc storage accessories and housing their coins in our quality archival polypropylene alternatives.

We weren’t able to attend the recent Sydney ANDA show but we’ll be at Adelaide ANDA in full force in October.

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Spring Welcomes Some New Grades

Things have been a little quiet lately and I’ll put that down to the cold of Winter but now we’ve turned the corner into Spring a cheery disposition is warranted. We’ve recently sent over 4 submissions to PCGS with some returned already, some grades in and some still pending.  We get notification of the grading about 10 days before the coins actually arrive back to us, thus some coins already sell to our regular customers before the coins are even back into the country and they never even make it to be listed on the website.  Top population coins and high grades particularly sell quite quickly.  Amongst the grades we’ve been notified of already are a 1951PL 1/2d MS65RD, 1947 & 1948 3d MS65, 1951PL 3d MS66, 1952 3d MS65, 1952 & 1958 2s MS64, 1948m & 1950m & 1951PL 1d MS64RB.