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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2338603, member: 24314"]MY BAD...They actually said they did this?  NCS was not even around back then. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Actually, you are 100% correct.  I FORGOT<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.  Mike Fazzari, told a class how the idea for NCS was developed when he went into a cleaning closet at NGC and took some copper spots off a gold coin (which then went up a grade).  That was sometime after 2000. Still, I'll bet they said this to get more business and I'll also bet the owners of the coins were "big" customers who knew.  I've been told that some large volume customers have given a "blanket" permission for any conservation that was "free" and could improve the coin.[/QUOTE]