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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3314462, member: 46237"]This is a beef I have with NGC. Their selection of approved reference books for world tokens is rather anemic. I even had a token that was in one of the guides they listed and submitted it with the catalog number, only to have it be returned ungraded because it wasn't in the edition of the catalog they had on hand... really NGC? I'm paying for <i>grading and encapsulation</i>. Just put Token on the label and grade the thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes tokens and medals are difficult to attribute! <b>The more obscure pieces that are harder to attribute are the ones rare enough to warrant encapsulation!</b> This is where some additional business is going to come from, but they need to be willing to do a little legwork. I've even submitted some tokens with photocopied pages from catalogs that described and attributed them, along with information about the catalog (the legwork is done!) and they've still refused to grade and encapsulate them. Oh well, after a number of times going through this song and dance, they lost my business for world tokens and medals. I submit the ones I have that are worth slabbing through PCGS now, and they have only returned one token unslabbed. I can't even fault them because I'm not even positive as to what it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3314462, member: 46237"]This is a beef I have with NGC. Their selection of approved reference books for world tokens is rather anemic. I even had a token that was in one of the guides they listed and submitted it with the catalog number, only to have it be returned ungraded because it wasn't in the edition of the catalog they had on hand... really NGC? I'm paying for [I]grading and encapsulation[/I]. Just put Token on the label and grade the thing. Sometimes tokens and medals are difficult to attribute! [B]The more obscure pieces that are harder to attribute are the ones rare enough to warrant encapsulation![/B] This is where some additional business is going to come from, but they need to be willing to do a little legwork. I've even submitted some tokens with photocopied pages from catalogs that described and attributed them, along with information about the catalog (the legwork is done!) and they've still refused to grade and encapsulate them. Oh well, after a number of times going through this song and dance, they lost my business for world tokens and medals. I submit the ones I have that are worth slabbing through PCGS now, and they have only returned one token unslabbed. I can't even fault them because I'm not even positive as to what it is.[/QUOTE]
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