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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1239315, member: 112&quot;]In most cases it all but impossible to discern AT from NT based on pictures, even for the most experienced. But even in hand there is absolutely no way to say with certainty that a given coin is or is not AT. (There are exceptions for those really bad AT jobs that even a novice can see.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But when it comes to one TPG refusing to slab a coin and another agreeing to slab that same coin, what you have to understand is that the TPGs (NGC and PCGS) vie with each other constantly, always trying to get the collecting public to switch over and use their respective services. So when NGC get particularly tight with grading toned coins, PCGS will loosen up and slab many of those rejected by NGC. And when PCGS gets particularly tight then NGC will loosen up and slab many of those rejected by PCGS. The same thing happens with the numerical standards. It&#039;s a game they play with each other with the goal being to get the other guys business.</p><p><br /></p><p>So over the short term, don&#039;t pay a whole lot of attention to it. Because next week or next month it&#039;ll probably change. What you should be looking at is how each company has been doing things over a period of many years. For it is only then that you will see that actual differences between the two companies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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