This coin is registered to another owner....

[Merlin8*]

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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[newprepper]

I've been waiting for it to happen to me, but it hasn't yet....knock wood

[ILJC#70]

I had the exact same issue yesterday. A collector requested transfer of a coin I bought from datentype a few weeks ago 5 times in less than 24 hours. I rejected the transfer and sent a separate message to the collector asking him to have some patience. Mine was a 1987D NGC MS67 JFK half.

[Merlin8*]

That's is a bit much ILJC, I still haven't heard from NGC regarding my rejection. They sure don't waste time letting us know our ownership is about to be transfered and make us, the registered owners jump rope.

[jayman1970]

I won a Washington quarter from datentype a while back and jumped the gun on registering it.The coin came back as registered to someone else, then a couple of days later it was added to my registry.When I received my quarter later that week the serial number didnt match the one I registered.I immediately went and corrected the problem.lesson learned!!!!

 

 

Jason

[Merlin8*]

Jason,

 

I've had that happen also and like you say, lesson learned and another variation on this issue. Once, I recieved a coin in the wrong holder, a PCGS holder instead of the NGC slab I was supposed to get. Another buyer purchased the same coin on the same day from the same seller in a different holder, I got his, he got mine. I registered the coin when won it and when the wrong one arrived I had to remove the other one and mail it back, another lesson.

 

Merlin8*

[newprepper]

I just contacted someone I traded with to give me the certs of the coins I traded so I can remove them from my registry.........oops......I'm stoopid