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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4952371, member: 10461"]Unfortunately, NGC is bad about promotional slab labels with nonexistent "hoards", like the so-called "Colosseum Hoard" labels seen on a variety of ancients from different time periods and therefore highly unlikely to have been found in an actual single buried hoard.  I've seen some other dodgy ones. I wouldn't put it past PCGS, either.  I'd not be surprised to find they'd done similar promotional labels, too, though I can't think of any examples offhand. You're right to be skeptical about TPG labels touting some hoard pedigree or another.  That being said, the majority of such pedigrees do have a legitimate provenance.  I suppose it's up to the buyer to do the research and learn what's legit and what's hype. Caveat emptor. Edit: I suppose my objection to NGC Ancients' "Colosseum Hoard" marketing is the misuse of the word "hoard", and what that implies.  The average, uninformed buyer is likely to assume that those coins came from a buried hoard found in the Colosseum (the Flavian Amphitheater in Rome).  The fact that they're merely a grouping of coins assembled in modern times for promotional purposes is much less romantic.  "Hoard" is misleading in this context.  "Colosseum Collection" would have been less objectionable.[/QUOTE]