Coins, Game Cards & Collectibles

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 A Pokémon battle coin from a 1999 Wizards of the Coast tin. A Battrio Master puck pulled from a Japanese arcade in 2008. A 1984 7-Eleven Slurpee lenticular disc from the bottom of a cup that a kid in Pittsburgh was too excited to throw away. A clay poker chip from the original Sands Casino before the wrecking ball came. These aren't afterthoughts. These are the pieces the big grading companies built zero infrastructure to protect — and Collector's Grade is done letting that slide. 

Here's what actually happened: PSA shoved Pokémon coins and Battrio pucks through the same process built for cardboard. CGC eventually started grading Pokémon coins and made a big deal about their "dedicated holder" — but Collector's Grade was already there first. CG built a dedicated coin slab before CGC ever entered the space. Nobody grades 7-Eleven Slurpee baseball discs with any real framework. Arcade tokens and casino poker chips get five adjective tiers at best — "New," "Slightly Used," "Average" — with zero magnification criteria and zero surface-specific language. That's not grading. That's a sticky note on a shoebox. 

• Pokémon Collectible Coins & Battle Tokens: Plastic and metal Pokémon coins from tins, sets, and promos. We evaluate surface finish, holofoil integrity, and edge condition — because a coin with edge whitening is not the same as one without, and you deserve a grader who knows the difference.
• Battrio Pucks & Arcade Game Chips: Japanese arcade collectibles that most grading companies have never even held. We assess face art condition, body wear from arcade machine use, and sensor-side integrity separately — because a Battrio puck has two functional surfaces and both of them matter. also grading Ga-ole, Mezastar Japnaese arcade discs 
• Sports Coins & Lenticular Discs: 7-Eleven Slurpee discs, Topps metal coins, Kellogg's 3D coins, and all the oddballs the hobby kept in shoeboxes for forty years. We evaluate lenticular layer integrity and image shift function — criteria that don't exist anywhere else because nobody else built them.
• Casino & Poker Chips: Clay, composite, and ceramic chips from casinos open and closed, home games, and private collections. We evaluate edge crispness, cross-hatching wear, inlay condition, and hot-stamp integrity — the four factors that determine whether a chip is a true collectible or a well-loved floor piece.
• Arcade Tokens & Gaming Currency: From Chuck E. Cheese to the Las Vegas Strip. Die detail, reeding condition, and high-point wear from vending machine cycling are all part of the evaluation — not an afterthought.

1. Built From Scratch — Because Nobody Else Did

No other grading company has written a dedicated scale for this category. PSA uses its card scale. The Casino Chips & Gaming Tokens Collectors Club uses five adjective tiers with no magnification criteria. We built our scale from the ground up — item type by item type, wear pattern by wear pattern — because a clay Paulson chip wears differently than a ceramic Chipco, a Battrio puck has arcade-specific wear patterns a card never faces, and a lenticular sports disc has functional characteristics that no card scale was ever designed to evaluate. These objects deserved criteria written specifically for them. So we wrote them.

2. Honest Label Designations

At grade 5 and below, CG notes applicable condition designations directly on the label: Cancelled/Modified for chips and tokens that were drilled, notched, or overstamped at end of casino service life, and Lenticular Impaired for sports discs where image shift function has been compromised. You get the full truth on the label — not just a number.

3. We Grade What Others Ignore

A cracked chip from the original Flamingo. A worn Battrio puck from a 2007 expansion that never made it outside Japan. A heavily played 7-Eleven Rod Carew disc from 1983. A Pokémon promotional coin from the first WotC era that lived in a tin for twenty-five years. If it's real, CG slabs it. Because the condition tells you what it went through — and the slab tells you it survived.