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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2480935, member: 112&quot;]All the equipment ? This is a picture of all the equipment in regard to their sniffer -</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]523728[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, it&#039;s between those 2 computer screens, it&#039;s not very big (smaller than most desktop computers) and is quite easily portable.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the time factor, this is a direct quote from the PCGS site -</p><p><br /></p><p><i>FT-IR spectroscopy in the PCGS Coin Sniffer process uses a beam of infra-red light that is reflected off a coin&#039;s surface to detect molecules of foreign substances. Different molecules vibrate at different wave lengths. A complete analysis of a coin&#039;s surface with simultaneous detection of all wave lengths can be completed <u>in less than one minute.</u></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Beyond that all they have to do is run it through their laser scanner - which might take another, what - 5 minutes tops - and then slab it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is the things that are different for the Secure Plus from the other grading tiers - the sniffer and laser scanner - take less than 10 minutes to complete them both. And they are both small, easily portable machines.</p><p><br /></p><p>So did they or didn&#039;t they ? I freely admit, I don&#039;t know. But if they didn&#039;t then they are charging you, their customers, for things they are not doing. And doing so at a place where they could easily get caught doing that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even as much disdain for them as I have, I don&#039;t think they&#039;d be likely to do that. You of course are free to have a different opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing that I really wonder about, is that even given all of this, things we know to be facts, some here would rather trust their opinions that it was PVC residue, based on a single picture they saw - than they would trust the facts that say it wasn&#039;t PVC residue.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that, that simply boggles my mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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