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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 213519, member: 2100&quot;]The first two links were for slightly scarcer (R2) tokens, while the last one was also for an R1 variety. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I wouldn&#039;t have NGC attribute any token of mine even if it were free, as I feel they do a rather poor job of it. Concerning Civil War tokens, either NGC has invented their own id system, or they simply do not understand how to properly use the system that this portion of the hobby uses in a rather universal manner. Technically, not a single NGC cwt slab displays the correct hobby accepted id system format. It is a very easy system to use, and a knowledgable person could clearly explain how it should be used to someone else in about 5 minutes.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC has also failed to read the corrections portion for the cwt die identification photos. In the main part of the photo section, some die photos are not correct for the given die number. EVERY NGC slab I have seen that indicates an id number that involves those incorrect photos/die numbers is in error, since they have not applied the accompanying corrections section. I have also noticed that they seem to have some difficulty copying merchant&#039;s names from the token to the label, not to mention the out and out misidentifications.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been successful in taking advantage of NGC&#039;s errors on 6 instances where they had incorrectly identified a scarce token as a common, and have missed out on other incorrectly id&#039;d ones. I&#039;ve also seen my share of commons id&#039;d as scarce issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO their token identification is sloppy and they don&#039;t really know what they are doing. Slab Id errors are not hard to find. In fact, the third link in post 36 above may be an example. Hertiage definitely got it wrong. From the auction title: &quot;1837 1C NY HT-268(61)&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, the portion in parenthesis should be a number &amp; a letter, 6I in this case, not 61. I could not read the slab label shown in the auction well enough, but I suspect that the slab label would also incorrectly show 61. Frequently making errors such as I have mentioned prevents me from having any confidence in their &quot;abilities&quot;, not to mention most &quot;benefits&quot; provided by slabs/tpgs are largely moot when applied to exonumia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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