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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C G Memminger, post: 2102801, member: 71506&quot;]Agree with JPC.&nbsp; NGC monopolized GSA grading for a long time.&nbsp; ANACS got in game, but they are a distant third grading agency behind the big boys.&nbsp; And their adhesive labels have scales which quickly fray and tear.&nbsp; PCGS finally got in game, but the entombment sucks.&nbsp; What are they thinking?</p><p><br /></p><p>So...NGC&#039;s monopoly continues.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason I would send a GSA to PCGS would involve a cracked GSA container.&nbsp; I had a really pretty 81-CC...with a gorgeous rainbow covering 80% of the reverse.&nbsp; It was a 4, in my view.&nbsp; I was packaging several GSAs for an NGC submission, and, to my horror, I tripped and fell and my **** knee landed right on this 81-cc.&nbsp; Huge cracks front and back, plus some missing plastic.&nbsp; Not so much plastic that I could remove the coin....but still....</p><p><br /></p><p>This was several years before PCGS&#039; entombment option.&nbsp; I sent this one to PCGS in its compromised container, and they returned my coin in their typical slab, with the GSA notation, and a stinkin&#039; 3, salting the self-inflicted wound.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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