To jayh749's tale

I recently registered a coin that I had just purchased on EbaY. When I hit the SAVE button, I got the dreaded message stating the coin was currently in the registry of some other individual.

NGC would contact them on my behalf and request they "release" the coin so I could add it to my registry. In my two years with the NGC registry, this is the third time this has happened. I think one of the coins was a proof mercury dime and the other was some very generic Roosevelt dime. In both those instances, a day or two later, the coin was "released" and placed in my registry. But this most recent incident, NGC has demanded I send a photo of the coin in its holder.

Now folks, we're talking about a very common 1958 Canadian Dollar with nothing going for it but the fact it is my birth year. Hmmm, was the coin a part of a collection owned by some New Brunswick millionaire? Will I soon be contacted by the Saskatoon Police Department with a request to make a voluntary statement? Will the RCMP demand I return this treasure to is rightful owner? One can only speculate at this point. So, I just sent NGC the EBAY listing information and the pic from the EBAY ad and hopefully that will clear me.

I understand and support the policy to contact and confirm from the preceding owner. I just wish owners would divest themselves of registry entries when they no longer own the coin. I hope it is inadvertent, I hope there not just trying to keep a set intact that is no longer complete. I wonder how many stolen coins ARE found when registry entries are attempted???