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<p>[QUOTE="illini420, post: 693825, member: 19423"]Thanks for the comments everyone. :thumb:</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>Never heard of customizing a Dansco to hold a slab, but I have started using Eagle Brand albums which is basically a 3 ring binder w/ a few hard plastic pages that hold 9 slabs each. Work for either PCGS or NGC coins and they are great for transporting and displaying slabs. Highly recommended.</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>Please remember that part of the problem with the gold especially is that AU incused Indian gold isn't that easy to grade in the first place. Combine that difficultly with me focusing more on the grades on the holder at the time instead of what the coin looked like, I wasn't surprised that I bought a couple of coins that were arguably overgraded. I don't think my sample size is enough to say once service is more strict than another. I've seen overgraded examples in both PCGS and NGC holders, and undergraded examples too. But from what I have seen, not only in this sample but in viewing probably hundreds of $2.5 and $5 gold, NGC seems to be a little more liberal in giving out the AU58 grade on these. Of course, there is also a possibility that I cased some additional rub to the coins while they were out of the holder and in my album, but I doubt that with the incused Indians especially as I was pretty careful <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="illini420, post: 693825, member: 19423"]Thanks for the comments everyone. :thumb: Never heard of customizing a Dansco to hold a slab, but I have started using Eagle Brand albums which is basically a 3 ring binder w/ a few hard plastic pages that hold 9 slabs each. Work for either PCGS or NGC coins and they are great for transporting and displaying slabs. Highly recommended. Please remember that part of the problem with the gold especially is that AU incused Indian gold isn't that easy to grade in the first place. Combine that difficultly with me focusing more on the grades on the holder at the time instead of what the coin looked like, I wasn't surprised that I bought a couple of coins that were arguably overgraded. I don't think my sample size is enough to say once service is more strict than another. I've seen overgraded examples in both PCGS and NGC holders, and undergraded examples too. But from what I have seen, not only in this sample but in viewing probably hundreds of $2.5 and $5 gold, NGC seems to be a little more liberal in giving out the AU58 grade on these. Of course, there is also a possibility that I cased some additional rub to the coins while they were out of the holder and in my album, but I doubt that with the incused Indians especially as I was pretty careful :)[/QUOTE]
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