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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1099424, member: 112&quot;]While I can&#039;t say this is definitive, I have an idea of what might be going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember how much flack the TPGs got for body-bagging coins, and for how many years that went on ? How people railed and ranted and complained about they were paying the TPGs for doing nothing when a coin was body-bagged ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, this situation might be similar to that. Rather than just pass the coin on as being ungradeable they are giving the coin to the graders for two reasons. One to establish authenticity so the coin can at least be placed in a Genuine holder, and two to avoid all of the flack that would probably arise if people found out the graders were no longer looking at the coin, that the coin was being discounted by a machine only. For if that happened, it would in a way be a repeat of the body-bag days.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at it from a diffeent point of view though. Can you imagine what would happen if the graders decided to over-rule the machine and slab a coin even though the machine detected foreign substances on the coin ? Especially after all the hoopla&nbsp; that preceeded the announcemnet of this practice ? If <u>that</u> ever happened, and people found out, then I imagine we would see a furor the likes of which we have never seen. And whatever now remains of PCGS&#039;s reputation would be gone in an instant !</p><p><br /></p><p>I would suspect that it would be akin to what would happen if PCGS got caught switching coins on submitters. Not that they do or ever would do that, but I suspect the consequences would be about the same.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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