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<p>[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 2879385, member: 24091"]Unfortunately, no. However, if you can find the medal (in a PCGS holder) in the archive section of Heritage, you can then look it up using the same verification method. Frustrating that world coins on PCGS get treated like unwanted step-children when it comes to population reports. Sure, it's possible to look them up using the country, then doing a Control-F and entering something specific to the issue you are interested in to narrow it down. But it's both time consuming and frustrating when the coin is in your hand, you have the coin number, and Coinfacts already open in a browser. Should be able to just enter the coin number and bingo, you're there just like US issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm also of the opinion that the grading services, NGC and PCGS both, could do far more business grading medals if they were a little more open to collector input on attribution. This is a rare medal struck in Paris at Studio Pradier around 1830 while Anton Bovy was an apprentice to James Pradier. Something like 20 of them in private hands, very rare. Bovy went on to become a prolific die sinker and designed most of the Swiss shooting medals of the 19th century. However, the medal isn't Swiss, it's French. I submitted it to NGC for grading, along with attribution that was provided by Hedley Betts, arguably the greatest authority on world medals that has ever lived, and NGC returned it in a body bag labeled "Swiss Medal, Ineligible Type". Like an idiot, I didn't make a copy of the attribution information I sent them, fully expecting it to be on the NGC holder, and of course NGC didn't return the document with the medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]689750[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 2879385, member: 24091"]Unfortunately, no. However, if you can find the medal (in a PCGS holder) in the archive section of Heritage, you can then look it up using the same verification method. Frustrating that world coins on PCGS get treated like unwanted step-children when it comes to population reports. Sure, it's possible to look them up using the country, then doing a Control-F and entering something specific to the issue you are interested in to narrow it down. But it's both time consuming and frustrating when the coin is in your hand, you have the coin number, and Coinfacts already open in a browser. Should be able to just enter the coin number and bingo, you're there just like US issues. I'm also of the opinion that the grading services, NGC and PCGS both, could do far more business grading medals if they were a little more open to collector input on attribution. This is a rare medal struck in Paris at Studio Pradier around 1830 while Anton Bovy was an apprentice to James Pradier. Something like 20 of them in private hands, very rare. Bovy went on to become a prolific die sinker and designed most of the Swiss shooting medals of the 19th century. However, the medal isn't Swiss, it's French. I submitted it to NGC for grading, along with attribution that was provided by Hedley Betts, arguably the greatest authority on world medals that has ever lived, and NGC returned it in a body bag labeled "Swiss Medal, Ineligible Type". Like an idiot, I didn't make a copy of the attribution information I sent them, fully expecting it to be on the NGC holder, and of course NGC didn't return the document with the medal. [ATTACH=full]689750[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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