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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SirCharlie, post: 732013, member: 17255&quot;]<span style="color: navy">Aha, coughing and sneezing, etc.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s an excellant point!&nbsp; It should be more like a hospital surgical room at the mint.&nbsp; There is no telling how may coins that have had specs of it land on our coins, and over time, the bacteria will graow and will expand to create those ugly black spots.&nbsp; Perhaps I am just too picky.&nbsp; I don&#039;t even like the fact that the grading companies handle coins with their bare hands, because although they just touch the sdge, that matter can grow around the edge and get on the face of the coin.&nbsp; Besides, the edge of the coins is also part of the grading.&nbsp; Many coins don&#039;t make 70s because the rims or edges have flaws, yet they still handle them with bare hands.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">I think we have probably all noticed the small flocking hairs that are associated with the presentation case somehow drawn to the plastic or even inside the capsules.&nbsp; I niticed them mostly on the older style cases like the little blue booklike case that comes with the AGE in the past.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">I know PCGS is considered #1 in grading. Is it possible that the reason NGC is considered #2 because they don&#039;t pay as much attention to the edge of the coins?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000080">A few years ago I did send a few coins to ICG and had them graded. Personally, at that time, I considered them to run neck and neck with PCGS. Around 2005, they stole many top people from PCGS and NGC to help them build the company, and I think they did a good job.&nbsp; At that time I wondered if they would surpass PCGS, but it never quite happened.&nbsp; Back then I went through several of my albums and pulled several keys, like my 1921 &amp; 1928 Peace, 1909-svdb, 1914-D, 1909-S Lincolns.&nbsp; I even baited them with a few other cleaned slider coins, but they caught, bagged and tagged every one of those.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000080">Guess I&#039;ll get off my soapbox before this becomes a book.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000080">Thanks,</span></p><p><span style="color: #000080">Chuck</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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