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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 2354105, member: 29751"]PCGS graders are the newbies in town with regard to slabbing exonumia (tokens, medals, etc). Both PCGS and NGC make attribution mistakes, and most of those errors likely stem from the submitter information to begin with. If a token is important enough to you to have slabbed, then it should also be important enough for you to know what you have and the correct attribution before you submit.</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal preference is for the customer service and many more years of experience that NGC offers in this arena. I consider PCGS to still be in a state of learning. Just my opinions as a long-time collector of this type of material.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a bit of a tangent: The vast majority of Civil War Tokens are not slabbed. The prices for really nice material slabbed can be quite strong, but very nice raw material also goes for strong prices (e.g., think of auctions by Steve Hayden). I have a few pieces in my collection that sold for more raw in auctions than I paid for them already slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 2354105, member: 29751"]PCGS graders are the newbies in town with regard to slabbing exonumia (tokens, medals, etc). Both PCGS and NGC make attribution mistakes, and most of those errors likely stem from the submitter information to begin with. If a token is important enough to you to have slabbed, then it should also be important enough for you to know what you have and the correct attribution before you submit. My personal preference is for the customer service and many more years of experience that NGC offers in this arena. I consider PCGS to still be in a state of learning. Just my opinions as a long-time collector of this type of material. As a bit of a tangent: The vast majority of Civil War Tokens are not slabbed. The prices for really nice material slabbed can be quite strong, but very nice raw material also goes for strong prices (e.g., think of auctions by Steve Hayden). I have a few pieces in my collection that sold for more raw in auctions than I paid for them already slabbed.[/QUOTE]
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