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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2985566, member: 10461&quot;]<b><i>Thank you! </i></b> I suspected as much (that those were fantasies) but couldn&#039;t get anyone to confirm that for me, nor did I have much success in my Google searching.&nbsp; I knew I was taking a chance with the elephant coin.&nbsp; Worst case scenario, I blew forty bucks on a bauble, but at least it should have a <i>tiny</i> bit of gold in it and will be attractive.&nbsp; I&#039;ll check on the seller&#039;s return policy.&nbsp; Please share pictures of the ones you have, if you can.</p><p>I prefer PCGS primarily for the TrueView imaging and the unobtrusive clear inserts.&nbsp; I like NGC fine in terms of grading and reputation in World coins, but dislike their actual plastic slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s the obtrusive white prongs, the traveling air bubbles inside some I&#039;ve had, and the fact that several of my NGC slabs are now grotesquely swollen and bulging, apparently from gases trapped within.&nbsp; They look like pillows or puffer fish now and will have to be reholdered.&nbsp; Probably at my expense, since everyone I&#039;ve spoken to seems to think this is a heat issue.&nbsp; But I keep my coins in a climate-controlled safe-deposit box.&nbsp; And if it were a heat thing, why would only <i>some</i> of my NGC slabs be bulging and trying to explode instead of <i>all</i> of them?&nbsp; All the PCGS slabs are fine.&nbsp; And I noticed the slabs that had the traveling air bubbles inside them before are the ones that are about to explode now.&nbsp; It&#039;s really freaky looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the answer is, I regard the &quot;Big Two&quot; TPGs almost equally, but PCGS offers vastly superior photography and better plastic capsules, for the most part.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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