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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 185486, member: 2761"]This is from Coin World...interesting reading about POP reports with NGC and PCGS: 1/15/2007  "Variations in grading service standards may also be revealing themselves. For example, PCGS has graded a mere two Jefferson 5-cent coins as MS-70 since and including the 2004 design changes while NGC has graded in excess of 9,501 MS-70 coins of the same dates as of its October 2006 report.  This compares to 11,855 2004 to date 5-cent coins graded Mint State by PCGS and 53,246 graded Mint State by NGC. NGC has graded about 4.5 times as many 2004-to-date Jefferson 5-cent coins as PCGS, and nearly 18 percent of these NGC-graded 5-cent coins grade MS-70. If the same percentage were applied to these same PCGS-graded issues, PCGS would have graded about 2,115 as MS-70." Let me see if I can understand this... Total 2004 5 cent coins submitted to PCGS: 11,855 Number of MS70 grades awarded: 2% of this given coin's submissions receiving MS70 grades: .017% ****************************************** Total 2004 5 cent coins submitted to NGC: 53,246 Number of MS70 grades awarded: 9,501% of this coin's submissions receiving MS70 grades: 17.84% Interesting...don't you think?[/QUOTE]