A New Contender

The phone number given is for Courtney's Cottage which has been disconnected.

I am, to say the least, bothered that these people are branching out and grading coins for others. For your information, philney, CCGS is the "self-slabbing" arm of a specific Ohio ebay coin dealer - albeit one with a brick-and-mortar presence, as well - who originally just sold coins of their own in CCGS slabs. I own a couple.

In those days, they were merely, um, enthusiastic about the grades they'd assign. I note that recently they've become NARU at ebay, and their website is down. Now, here's CCGS, apparently in Michigan instead of Ohio (Why would you say Indiana, philney?), poorly grading coins for the general public. Furthermore, according to their website, they've stopped taking CC/Paypal and want cash or money order only.

Not encouraging.

Pull the plug, dad. He even has Superdave repeating himself.

Jim

As far as I can see, these are two different slabbers named CCGS - one is short for "Certified Coin Grading Company" - the one with the maroon ribbon logo, in Amazon's link - and the second is (presumably) "Courtney's Cottage Grading Company", the one philney is spruiking.

Which raises another question. According to my calculations, there are 388,800 possible different four-letter acronyms. Why would they pick one that was (a) already in use by a minor rival, and (b) only one letter different from the acronym of one of their major rivals? It seems to me that if they really were trying to start out an authentic new TPG, they'd pick a much more unique acronym. Or be really original, and not use a four-letter acronym at all.

Let me assure you philney that there is no offense taken. I seems most of us, including myself, assumed you were talking of Certified Coin Grading Company out of Michigan, and that is a sore subject. Posting pictures would definitely clear the air. Use this, Uploading images, to post some pics. The system is very picky with file size, so make sure you crop out all background and resize to under 100k. My system only allow about 75k and when they post they are close to 100.

While I do think you are advertising for what may be a friend down the street to gain some traction against the big 4 services, I think a picture of the slab, and closeups of the coins that have been graded will speak volumes here.

Please understand with a forum this size we get a lot of fly by night folks just popping in to defend their basement slabbing services to no avail. The proof is in the pictures. We have a testing forum at the bottom of the page so you can practice posting images if you don't get it right away.

It is kind of funny to hear anyone talk about Crawfordsville. I have family there as well as in Markleville and Indianapolis. I am from South Bend. There is not much going on in Indiana...

I am curious to see the pictures and am giving this company the benefit of the doubt until I see otherwise. You have to start somewhere, but I must admit history is not on their side as far as longevity and market acceptance are concerned

Jim

Still no pics huh?