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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3126866, member: 77639&quot;]From what I&#039;ve gathered, the coin was consigned raw along with some others from an old collection to Heritage&#039;s NY office.&nbsp; The NY office is not where Heritage&#039;s real numismatic experts work; they&#039;re in Dallas. In NY, there is probably just some preliminary sorting to determine whether coins might be fake and whether they are worth grading.&nbsp; Those deemed worth slabbing go off to PCGS or NGC.&nbsp; Not the least surprising that the NY office missed noticing the coin was a pattern.&nbsp; Coin was probably returned from PCGS directly to Dallas where it fell under the eye of Zeke Wischer, who had a an &quot;aha&quot; moment.&nbsp; Rest is history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I&#039;m sure Heritage provided NGC with evidence that the coin was a pattern, which made life easy for them.&nbsp; We&#039;ll never know if they would have detected it on their own.&nbsp; I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall to hear the conversation that must have occurred between Heritage and PCGS after Zeke made his discovery.&nbsp; Good chance Heritage gave PCGS a chance to make good on their goof, but got rebuffed.&nbsp; So coin was sent to NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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