The Oft-forgotten Smaller Sibling - The Half Sovereign

Lovely coin. Too bad about the nasty, white NGC prongs gnawing away at it like fangs, leaving shadows and blocking the view ...

Oh, sorry. Did I go off one one of my pet rants, there?

 

Prong-lover! Prong-lover! Admit it! You're a secret agent for NGC! Spreading prong-paganda!

"Prongs are harmless little things", you whisper soothingly.

No!!! They AREN'T! Prongs are the DEVIL'S WORK!!!

'Scuze me - I must pause to wipe the flecks of foam from around my mouth, and take a deep breath before resuming...

 

Actually, they don't bother me, either, IF the coin was photographed nicely before it got entombed. If I have to put up with prongs in the photos, though, look out!



Prongs in photos = bad.

VERY BAD. The DEVIL'S WORK, I say!

Actual prongs in the slabs = meh.

 

NGC, I hope y'all are seeing this.

@1934 Wreath Crown - I enjoyed "stealing" - borrowing - your coins.

 

The latter, please.

No contest there.

PS- don't mistake me for one of those a Kool-Aid-quaffing "PCGS or nothing else" kind of people (who also demand little CAC stickers on their US coins). Sure, I take sips of the PCGS Kool-Aid - occasionally big gulps of it - but really, aside from the prong thing and their substandard in-house photography, I have no issue at all with NGC. Have a submission going off to them pretty soon, in fact.

I like "glamour shots" and have no shame in admitting that.

Overgraded? PCGS? Not in my experience. More than once I've cracked a coin out of an NGC holder so I can send it to PCGS for proper images without prongs in the way ("glamor shots", as you say) and had it drop a point from NGC to PCGS. How's that overgrading?

Besides, if a TPG wants to overgrade a coin of mine by a point or two, who am I to complain? That's better than the opposite outcome.