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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2534891, member: 76863&quot;][USER=46237]@Jaelus[/USER] </p><p>If you can find mechanics like that more power to you, but anywhere around me or that I&#039;ve ever been if a mechanic looks at your car for 10 hours you better believe you&#039;re getting a bill for labor.&nbsp; Labor is always a significant portion of the bills as well.&nbsp; You are in fact paying for their time to do what they do being fixed is just the end result unless of course you get a flat rate deal from them. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the situation of the obscure coins you mentioned the most likely outcome is a no service with a refund.&nbsp; I have had a medal returned from PCGS with a refund for no service because it wasn&#039;t something they did. </p><p><br /></p><p>Saying they didn&#039;t have the expertise on hand to make a definitive decision is over simplifying in this case.&nbsp; There are instances where they have used the same code which are pretty easy to say for sure but they are very rare.&nbsp; Counter stamps are a hard bunch.&nbsp; Whose the judge and jury on it for whose right?&nbsp;&nbsp; What is pcgs says no, ngc says yes or vice versa then what?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My advice for his piece would be to treat it as a discovery piece.&nbsp; If there are recognized experts in the counter stamp field ect get letters from the, autheticating.&nbsp; Include reseaech materials with the submission and the letters showing the authenticity ect and you may have a better chance of getting yes.&nbsp; As Doug mentioned though I would much rather they say we don&#039;t know then just pretend like they do[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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