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Message:: [QUOTE="DoubleDie, post: 919125, member: 10132"]PCGS Founder David Hall emphasizes the critical importance of PCGS Secure Plus: "When PCGS opened in February 1986, we 'flicked a switch' and changed the rare coin market. We've just flicked another switch, and this changes everything. Imagine a world without coin doctoring. Imagine a world without 'gradeflation.' This is the right thing to do." "Released after two years of extensive testing in partnership with Coinsecure, Inc. of Palo Alto, California, the PCGS Secure Plus system digitally captures the unique "fingerprint" of each coin, and enters it into a permanent data base. Neither the coin's appearance nor its grade can be changed without flagging the system." If PCGS grades a coin AU58+, then that's the grade they want it to remain. PCGS wants to be the only coin grading standard for all of numismatics. Just watch and see. I send coins to PCGS, and I like the new technology, but I don't have to like the company. I shop at Wal-Mart, but I don't have to like the company either. I think it's great this could eliminate coin doctoring, but PCGS will never perfect coin grading until they are the only coin grading service on the market to compare themselves to, which will never happen.[/QUOTE]