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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3432427, member: 10461&quot;]Hm.&nbsp; The old cert. # no longer exists, so I can&#039;t find the original TrueView.&nbsp; But this image from my collection was made from it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911298[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is his wonderful PCGS AU50 hammered gold florin <i>before</i>, when <i>I</i> was the first to submit it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911299[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Gennie holder.&nbsp; Problem coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>What to do?&nbsp; I loved this coin, but I usually don&#039;t keep pieces that aren&#039;t straight-graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>So before I sold it, I sent it, along with <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/yPHqe15bNGgkcHUA7qbT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/yPHqe15bNGgkcHUA7qbT" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" rel="nofollow">this</a>, off to NGC.&nbsp; NGC&#039;s second opinion mattered.&nbsp; They&#039;ve got the biggest TPG market share in World coins, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ha!&nbsp; <i>What</i> second opinion? </p><p><br /></p><p>NGC sent back <i>all three of those coins</i> as ineligible types! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911300[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I had cracked the hammered gold out of the PCGS Gennie holders prior to this completely failed (0 for 3) NGC attempt, which meant I was now facing the prospect of paying to slab them a <i>third</i> time, with the seemingly inevitable result being just more Gennie holders again.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I sold them raw.&nbsp; And then [USER=85251]@IBetASilverDollar[/USER] sent the Gelderland florin back in to PCGS and got not only a straight grade, but an <i>up</i>grade, and a better TrueView to boot.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>He</i> got PCGS <b>AU50</b> and a truer TrueView that better showed the toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911301[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That really &quot;dunked my hat in the creek&quot;, to use one of my wife&#039;s quaint country euphemisms. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That was my final straw for using NGC on anything except ancients.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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