New NGC "Norman Rockwell" Labels

It's 5 days late for April Fool tricks. I'm at a loss for another explanation.

 

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Trying to get the buyers of the Norman Rockwell item to submit for grading?
(Get your MS- or PF-70 grade right here!!! And labeled so you'll know what it is!!!))

 

Eisenhower dollars and Kennedy halves only.

The labels have their likenesses as Rockwell painted them for the Saturday Evening Post.

(YN's: What's a "Saturday Evening Post"?)

 

Yea I don't get it really. I'd pay a premium for their centered gold labels though. I don't really care for the new left justified labels. Having said that, I like them way better than the new PCGS slabs that feel cheap and don't fit in NGC boxes.

 

I have no problem with them. I actually think they look pretty good. There are hundreds of different ways to store coins, why is this one so wrong?
https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/5229/

 

Just another instance in which people think the plastic IS the collectible. The coin is an afterthought.

I don't care what people collect, it simply looks cheap and dated to me. Looks like a cheap "collector's" plate from 1974.

 

I received the email today and lost a lot of respect for them today. Really NGC doesn't even think an Ike dollar is even a coin worth grading let alone owning. Just saying and that's coming from a guy that owns Ike's in NGC holders. Its starting to feel like one of those week night coin shows on cable on one of those channels that I never watch.

 

I think they look alright, for slabs. Maybe they'll put something from Jackson Pollock on slabbed waffled coins?

 

How about, "blatant money grab having nothing whatsoever to do with numismatics?" If Capital Plastics did something like this, it would be one thing.

TPG's are arbiters, not collectibles manufacturers. And they're not even very good at that, these days. Who's offering an over/under on the first Ike with a Kennedy label?

 

I actually thought you were trying to be funny in your bureaucratic and governmental ways. A 5 day late April's fools joke... Now the joke is on ngc and it's self inflicted

 

Careful there, SuperDave, some Millennial who suffered through over a decade of "nobody's worse or better, things are just diverse" schooling will object to your having a strong opinion. They can't handle older folks having opinions. It annoys them.

 

They just haven't discovered yet that, when the rubber actually meets the road, they do have their biases. In the meantime, I'll introduce them to some of mine.

 

Yup, and we can also speak without turning the pitch of every sentence upward, as if it were a question.

 

Blatant money grab? Modern is usually $16. These are $20. Not much of a money grab there.

 

Well, duh, it's what old guys used to call the snaps you send when you're getting ready to go out and have fun on a Saturday night.

 

Yet yall are the ones who get your panties in a wad over a $4 premium for a different holder option

 

What sort of percentage increase is that on their margin?

What extra value is added? How does it increase the quality of their work? Does it make the coin contained therein more valuable? Will you get more on resale to someone who wants the coin, not the slab, like we repeat ad nauseam here?

Are you enthusiastic for "First Strike" slabs as well? If not, what's the difference? If so....well, I'll just shut up then.

 

I am a big believer in a free market. If someone likes the holder, and wants to pay $4 extra for it, why does that make it wrong? Who cares if it will bring more when they sell? Some people like collecting coins in folders. Some in flips. Is one more expensive than another? Sure. Does that make it evil? No. Let people collect coins how they want, and don't get too upset over it.

 

I can't argue any of that. It just (to me) cheapens what they do, and what they do is kinda vital to our hobby. They're a centralized authority for authentication - regardless of opinions about consistency of grading or anything like that, I would instantly submit a coin for authentication to them if there were question - and obvious plays to greater profit like these slabs tend to raise doubts (again, to me) about their motivations.

I guess what it boils down to is, to me, TPG's are like hospitals. I really don't want to think they're in the game just to maximize profits.

 

Since each special label request has to be on a separate submission form do you have to pay a separate submission processing fee for each one as well?