ICCS Or CCCS For Colonial Tokens?

I sent off a handful of tokens to CCCS because #1 I didn't want to wait months for NGC or PCGS, #2 Since I was keeping everything north of the border I picked CCCS over ICCS because I wanted the hard holder.

I had 1 come back with the coin mounted upside down & showing wrong side (coin was mounted correctly but put in the holder backwards). No one obviously looking at the slab after it's been sealed.

I had 2 that are issues that are known for weak strikes (MS looks like a 40) but they should know that, and the other 2 were just baffling as to how they came to the grade they assigned.

The real kicker for me was I sent 4 in from the Doug Robbins collection and only 3 received the notation.

I'm not "complaining" because I didn't get the grades I wanted, bottom line is that the whole experience seemed very inconsistent and somewhat lazy.

Bad day at the grader's table I guess.

It was a recent submission for a counterbrockage cent that both SPP-Ottawa and Mike Diamond confirmed.

Louis at CCCS said he never puts counterbrockage on the holder, so I had to send it back and pay for another recertification to get it on the slab.

http://goccf.com/t/413525

My opinion , unless they are rare varieties or high grade I would not even grade them . Token collectors generally ignore the slab ( mainly because the grading is wrong) and buy the token