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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2277287, member: 19463&quot;]I know a couple people whose opinion I would value as much as I would Sear&#039;s and I would hope that one would step up and offer the service but no one is going to offer a guarantee on ancients.&nbsp; There are just too many ancients that a jury of twelve high level experts would be split on.&nbsp; To collect on life insurance you have to be able to prove the insured is dead.&nbsp; The few types and small number of dies (relatively speaking) allow there to be experts whose opinions are close enough to certain that they are insurable.&nbsp; There are ancients that have been found to be real after a century of condemnation when a second turned up under unimpeachable circumstances.&nbsp; There are fakes that have been discovered after the fact that embarrassed major experts.&nbsp;&nbsp; Being in the ground is not a sure sign.&nbsp; There are dozens of factors and a million varieties (that is not an exaggerated number but neither is it a count) as distinct as the difference between the VDB and non-VDB Lincolns.&nbsp; To learn them all completely will take a while considering the number that are known to exist only in one specimen and the real possibility that another will turn up either in the soil of Germany or a collection of the great grandchildren of a guy that found it during WWI.&nbsp; We do the best we can.&nbsp; The best of us will err on occasion. </p><p><br /></p><p>PGCS knows well enough that they don&#039;t know enough to do ancients properly.&nbsp; To change this they would have to hire a crew of very expensive people or decide to offer opinions some of us might not respect for a few decades until we saw how they do.&nbsp; Does that sound like a sound business model?&nbsp; NGC seems to be doing pretty well.&nbsp; Could the market support both them and a competitor?&nbsp; Don&#039;t tell me there are other companies already in the business.&nbsp; Do you trust them? </p><p><br /></p><p>Buy from trusted and knowledgeable sellers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Several members of this list have coins that show this is not true.&nbsp; The chances of a new variety being found each year is real.&nbsp; The number of catalogs that are the latest word in their field and fifty years old is considerable.&nbsp; We have learned a lot in fifty years.&nbsp; If &#039;just about&#039; means 99%, maybe.&nbsp; 1% of a million is 10,000.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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