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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 8499665, member: 24754&quot;]I was doing some research on the early history of coinage and &quot;independent&quot; origins of coin-like currency. I&#039;d never seen any Chinese spade or knife money in NGC slabs, and always just assumed that this was probably due to the odd shapes and lack of applicable holders. However, I began looking for early Indian karshapana &quot;coins&quot; and couldn&#039;t find any of those either, even though it seems that they would easily be accommodated by traditional slabs. I ended up on the NGC website looking for answers and found this in their &quot;Coins we grade&quot; section.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<i>However, currently we do not grade coins from ancient India (including Kushan and its related or derivative coinages) or from any region further east.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no explanation given for why this would be the case. I&#039;m assuming that it might be because they don&#039;t have anyone on-staff with the appropriate expertise? Or maybe because counterfeits are too prevalent?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I figured I&#039;d run it past you guys out of curiosity. Thought maybe one of you might know the answer, or have additional theories.</p><p><br /></p><p>If not, then maybe I&#039;ll shoot them an email. I just don&#039;t like bothering companies with questions intended to satiate my own curiosity <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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