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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 116691, member: 2761"]I can't see what benefit the likes of PCGS, NGC, ANACS or ICG would see by participating in fraud or ethic violations. These four TPGs have proved themselves to the coin community. The future of their TPG business rests in grading and slabbing moderns and the last thing any of these services would want ANY bad press.  Any short term benefit would not be worth losing millions in further submissions. I can't see how one service would intentionally grade a coin a 66 instead of a 65 for the benefit of a few thousand dollars when they could lose everything they worked for. Could it happen?  Like everything, sure it can.  However you are more likely to see that on eBay's "alphabet of slabs" (i.e., SGS, NNC, etc.) than with the likes of the top four. Let me put in this way...it is already happening with sellers like Aboncom and their back room where loose change is "packaged" in SGS holders and sold as PR70 or MS70.[/QUOTE]