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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2493363, member: 24314"]Ten years is ANCIENT HISTORY in the coin business!  As I understand it, at the beginning of NGC's (and possibly also PCGS) attribution service (over ten years ago), only one researcher was doing the work.  Unless a submitter asked for variety service plenty of naked eye major varieties were passed as normal coins.  If the submitter did ask for attribution and that researcher deemed it "not worthy" in his opinion, nothing was done.  In their defense his reasoning was this:  If we holder a 1972 DDO #10965 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> in our slab some ignorant collector is going to think it has the same value as DDO-001!  Furthermore, many people cannot differentiate many CONECA varieties w/o photos. More ancient history along the same lines: At one major show (years before they did it) two of us tried to get NGC to authenticate tokens as PCI, and ANACS had been doing for years.The reply, and give NGC owners credit for this, is they were not going to do tokens or medals until they had competent authenticators in the field + a library on those coins in place. Thankfully, the two major services have caught up with ICG and ANACS with regard to variety attribution.[/QUOTE]