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Message:: [QUOTE="Caleb, post: 1370755, member: 32795"]Both NGC and PCGS are notorious for mis – attributing varieties. I have about a half dozen from each service that are wrong. Someone mentioned that they send the coins out to someone else for attribution, which is incorrect. Mike Faraone attributes coins for PCGS in house and David Lange does the same for NGC in house. At PCGS you will only get the coin attributed if it is listed in the Cherrypickers’ Guide or one of the other reference books they use. All other varieties, they will keep your $24 and just put “Minor Variety” on the label and not tell you which number it is.  Sort of like keeping you guessing. What we have done, is once the coin is graded, we send it off to Dr. Wiles (CONECA) who will link his notes on which die variety and stage it is to the certification number on the slab for only $7 per coin regardless if it is in the Cherrypickers’ Guide or not. If the coin is something he hasn’t seen and worthy, then Dr. Wiles will give the coin a new listing in CONECA’S files. So we get more information at a cheaper price then PCGS, and in my opinion, more reliable information at that. A link to our variety set can be seen below.<a href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=1165" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=1165" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=1165</a>[/QUOTE]