If you send in a coin and ask for a given service they will examine the coin and you will be charged for that examination whether you get a favorable outcome or not. Send it in for grading and it won't grade or slab you still get charged. Attribution and it isn't a variety they recognize you still get charged. Mint error category and it isn't a mint error you still get charged. People don't seem to realize that they are not paying for the slabbing, the attribution, or the identification, they are paying for the examination and opinion. "In our opinion it won't grade, it isn't a recognized variety, it is not a mint error", you got the opinion and you pay for it.
Unfortunately many people send in varieties for attribution that NGC does not recognize. (It also isn't easy to find the lists of what they DO recognize on their website. The links they have posted for the list do not work. You have to google search the site to find them.) They only recognize one RPM on the 1943
War Nickels, a 43-P/P known as RPM-014. Here is the list for
Jefferson nickels http://www.ngccoin.com/VPSubCategor...rson-nickelsIn the case of the 1943 quarter they do recognize the FS-102, so they probably misattributed the coin as something else. (NGC is NOT good at attributing between similar varieties. Often it seems like their attitude is "yeah it kinda looks like that one, we'll call it that.") The Wahington quarter list is at
http://www.ngccoin.com/VPSubCategor...ton-quartersThe WHOLE list for all coins is at
http://www.ngccoin.com/VPcategories.aspx If you are going to send a variety in for attributing to NGC you really need to check the list before you send it in. And if you want to increase the chances of getting the attribution but on the form which one it is. (Unfortunately that will often get that attribution listed on the slab even if it is wrong.)
Posted 06/21/2012 10:47 pm
