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How is National Numismatic Certification as a grading company?

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How is National Numismatic Certification as a grading company?

-Nanda

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  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    They take coins and put them in slabs with a label that has a number on it. Generally it's a higher number than I would use.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • coffeycecoffeyce Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    Nanda,

    I have bought several of their slabbed coins on Ebay. I didnt pay more than for the coin and I'm glad. Im very novice at coin grading but even I could tell the coins they sent didnt match thier grades. All mine were silver from guatemaula, brazil and on belgium so I would have minimal loss.

    My best advice to you is pay for the coin you see and ignore the grade and if you want a specific grade in a coin look to ANACS, PCGS or NGC. Stay away from NNC, SGS and capitol coin grading.

    Chris
  • DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭
    one word should suffice: SCAM
  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,753 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TERRIBLE--i have seen and mis-attributed and altered in NNC slabs.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    See my response on the Liteside version of this thread.

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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
    Generally, I agree, but I did experience one exception to the rule. About 3 years ago, I found a XF 1872 indian head cent in a NNC holder. I broke it out and sent it to ANACS (to keep my set consistant), and it came back AU-58. What is that saying about when pigs fly....?
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Generally, I agree, but I did experience one exception to the rule. About 3 years ago, I found a XF 1872 indian head cent in a NNC holder. I broke it out and sent it to ANACS (to keep my set consistant), and it came back AU-58. What is that saying about when pigs fly....? >>



    Wow, you should have bought a lottery ticket that day. You'd probably have won a million bucks.

    You can occasionally score a nice coin in some of this Third World plastic. It's not the grading that worries me with Third World slabs. You can see the coin and grade it accordingly. It's the hidden problems undisclosed on the labels that you have to watch out for.

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  • IloiloKanoIloiloKano Posts: 1,051


    << <i>How is National Numismatic Certification as a grading company? >>


    To say NNC is untrustworthy would be giving too much credit.
    My US-PI One Centavo Circulation Strikes (1903-1944)
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    A waste of otherwise useful plastic IMO.
    If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:

    WNC Coins, LLC
    1987-C Hendersonville Road
    Asheville, NC 28803

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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,296 ✭✭✭✭
    not to be relied upon for grading NOR authentication

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 987
    I had one experience with NNC. I purchased a very scarce coin that was in a NNC holder graded MS64. I knew it wasnt a 64 when I bought it because if it was it would have been a $10,000 coin. When it arrived a few days later (with the best packaging that I had ever seen on a coin that arrived) I was amazed at how nice this coin actually looked in hand, I was thinking that it might come back MS60. I sent it to PCGS for a crossover and they gave it a grade of AU58, I was extremely happy with the crossover grade.
  • CollectorBobCollectorBob Posts: 418 ✭✭
    As good as you or me slabbing coins at home ourselves. Assign a grade that pleases! image
  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    Bought a 1904 Proof USPI 10 centavos in PF-65 for $170 in Sept 2005.

    Cracked and crossed to NGC at same grade.

    Sold for $270 in Feb 2008.

    My only experience with them.

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