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ICG has always slabbed a lot of stuff that the other companies won't touch, tokens, medals, copies, I even think they could even be convinced to slab some contemporary counterfeits such as the bogus busties or a Henning nickel. (They already slab contemporary counterfeit british half pence and Conder tokens.)
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I guess you need to have your replica slobbed. (as BiggFredd would call it)  I also like when they give certificates of authenticity to replica coins. As in "we guarantee this is fake"  |
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Sadly, everthing has bids.
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There was an utterly hilarious thread at the PCGS board a few years ago, wherein a member threw everything he could think of at ICG to see where they drew the line. They got everything he submitted right, and the line wasn't drawn until he submitted a wooden nickel.  |
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All they care about is money. If you are willing to pay to get it slabbed then why not. I know it lowers there reputation, but theres is already not that great.
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A dealer @ PNNA yesterday had a coin that he had cracked out of an ICG slab - they had graded it AU and he knew that was garbage and could never be sold to anyone who actually looked at the coin. As an AU50 at GreySheet 135/145 is just was not going to happen on any planet I know of...
Now as an EF40 with GreySheet at 55/60 and retail at 80, we were both happy at 72 (he wouldn't do 70).
The dealer at the next table was watching with a grin and sharing his own war stories and when I asked if he knew what ICG stood for, all three of us chorused "I can't grade".
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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