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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26033878, member: 10461&quot;]Well, nobody was ever able to explain to me why this coin was sitting in limbo for four and a half months, despite having been ready long ago.&nbsp; The only explanation I got was that there was a &quot;shipping hold&quot; on it, though nobody could ever explain why.&nbsp; The best I can figure is that it&#039;s because I put my <i>work</i> address on the invoice for shipping, instead of the <i>home</i> address they have on file.&nbsp; But I&#039;m pretty sure I&#039;ve had stuff shipped from them to my work address before, without encountering this issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spoke with a representative <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-2025-fun-show-report-live-updates-from-the-floor.415802/page-7#post-26026940" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-2025-fun-show-report-live-updates-from-the-floor.415802/page-7#post-26026940">when I was at the NGC table at the FUN show</a>, and he mentioned this hold but did not know why it was put on there.&nbsp; He suggested I call Customer Service, which I did, and that person said the same thing.&nbsp; It had a shipping hold on it, but why they didn&#039;t inform me of that and let things dangle in limbo for months without contacting me is anybody&#039;s guess.&nbsp; The Customer Service rep did not know why the hold had been put on there, either- nor why I had never been informed of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway...</p><p><br /></p><p>The main thing is that it finally got unstuck two days after I called, and the final news is good.&nbsp; The coin got a <b><i>Mint State</i></b> grade, which I did not expect.&nbsp; NGC described the flipover double strike as a &quot;die shift&quot;, which seems accurate enough to me.&nbsp; They did give it a &quot;brushed&quot; notation, but that could refer to the conservation work they did themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, it was a long wait, but now that the coin is on its way back to me, and the results were good, the wait was well worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8229797-001/NGCAncients/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/8229797-001/NGCAncients/" rel="nofollow"><b>Here is the now-complete cert page.</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p>And some pics.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Before conservation:</b></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_1173-png.1654124/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>After conservation (deposits removed):</b></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_1172-png.1654123/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Slab pics from cert page:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://ccg-imaging-ngc-coins-production.s3.amazonaws.com/17264896-03d0-49eb-8fae-0b3115b43042/NGC8229797-001_OBV.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://ccg-imaging-ngc-coins-production.s3.amazonaws.com/17264896-03d0-49eb-8fae-0b3115b43042/NGC8229797-001_REV.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Photovision obv-rev pics from cert page:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://ccg-imaging-ngc-coins-production.s3.amazonaws.com/ccab3d02-32b6-42eb-bb1d-271278f64c0f/8229797-001.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://ccg-imaging-ngc-coins-production.s3.amazonaws.com/aca2372b-8021-4d8f-bcb6-08812c0f5fc6/8229797-001R.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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