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Midas's point is that PCGS is stricter (as backed up by his numbers), but I think the scope of that assesment must be limited to the scope of the numbers presented. It appears to me that PCGS is stricter in the way it handles 70 grades for those series. The real question is does this mean that PCGS is stricter across the board or do they just have a greater threshold for 70? Say that both companies have identical satndards for 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69, but when a coin is obviously a 69 and they are inspecting it for the possibility that it is a 70 then PCGS breaks out the 7x magnifying glass to look for blemishes while NGC keeps using their 5x loupes. I'm hypothesizing here, obviously, but it seems clear that PCGS is stricter with the 70 grades, but many insist that NGC is more consistant throughout the 1-70 range, meaning that somewhere there must be a break where NGC ceases to have the same standards as PCGS. Is that break at 69? or is it at 67/68 (like ICG on moderns)?
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