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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2872845, member: 10461&quot;]I did rather jinx myself by including the nonsense bacon option in the poll, but people have come to expect that, so I was forced by tradition. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I do always try to keep an eye on resale potential, because even though I&#039;m a collector first and swapper/flipper second, my set is a rotating door, and my hold time on coins varies from a year or two to a decade or more.&nbsp; I&#039;m not a &quot;hold onto them for life&quot; kind of collector, though there are some I do intend to hold for a very long time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do intend to get a second opinion from NGC on my two hammered gold medievals which PCGS gave &quot;details&quot; grades to.&nbsp; The <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/32089335" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/32089335" rel="nofollow">Gelderland florin</a> <i>should</i> have a reasonable chance at a straight grade, in my opinion.&nbsp; In retrospect, I do now see why PCGS dinged the <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/85188589" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/85188589" rel="nofollow">Brabant Carolus d&#039;or</a> for mount removal, and I suspect NGC will as well, but I still intend to try it with them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no aversion to NGC itself, despite my hating their white prongs that hang over the coins and interfere with photography.&nbsp; Since I have TrueViews of both these pieces from PCGS now, if NGC grades them, that&#039;s fine- I will use the basic coin images from the PCGS TrueViews in my &quot;shadowbox&quot; Photoshop template, without the PCGS cert numbers.&nbsp; This is, after all, what I do with my ancients, which I buy raw and get good photos of <i>before</i> they go into the NGC plastic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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