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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 116193, member: 1674&quot;]Midas&#039;s point is that PCGS is stricter (as backed up by his numbers), but I think the scope of that assesment must be limited to the scope of the numbers presented.&nbsp; It appears to me that PCGS is stricter in the way it handles 70 grades for those series.&nbsp; The real question is does this mean that PCGS is stricter across the board or do they just have a greater threshold for 70?&nbsp; Say that both companies have identical satndards for 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69, but when a coin is obviously a 69 and they are inspecting it for the possibility that it is a 70 then PCGS breaks out the 7x magnifying glass to look for blemishes while NGC keeps using their 5x loupes.&nbsp; I&#039;m hypothesizing here, obviously, but it seems clear that PCGS is stricter with the 70 grades, but many insist that NGC is more consistant throughout the 1-70 range, meaning that somewhere there must be a break where NGC ceases to have the same standards as PCGS.&nbsp; Is that break at 69?&nbsp; or is it at 67/68 (like ICG on moderns)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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