with a different twist.

Howdy Friends,

Has this happened to you recently? It's been awhile for me at least until today while at work I received an email from NGC that another person had registered a coin I won at auction about 3 weeks ago and that NGC would remove the coin from my registry and transfer it to the new owner and mark it as sold in my collection manager. Then there some links available given a choice to either reject or accept the transfer request. An explanation as to the reason I was rejecting the transfer was asked for if that was in fact the case. This is a little different twist on an old scenario, at least for me.

Someone probably won the same coin from datentype that I did and used the photo on the listing to register the coin. In this case the coin in the listing photo that is attempting to be registered, I have in hand. For me, given datentype's photo disclaimer, I know up front that there are multiple coins of the same date and type, pun intended, available from this seller. So as a practice I wouldn't register this coin until I received it.

However, as a rule, I normally do check ownership by registering a coin if I know it to be the coin I will receive, when payment has cleared and a shipping notification has been received. This saves some turnaround time when the coin arrives registered to another owner and I've waited a week or more to find that out. I then contact the seller asking that they please release the coin when payment clears. In most cases the seller complies fairly quickly and I have only had to wait for NGC to force the issue a few times when the seller wasn't the registered owner.

No big deal really, I haven't heard back from NGC regarding my rejection yet but thought this worthy of a journal entry. I have attached a full slab shot of the coin in question for your viewing pleasure since I posted an obverse reverse composite shot in a post just recently.

Not sure how many more variations there are to this issue but I think I have them all covered now with this last twist. Like I said it's all good, it'll all come out in the wash, it just happens to be one of the rarest modern coins I own, besides that no big whoop!

da owner,

Merlin8*

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