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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 710503, member: 9270"]First let me say that I now officially REALLY dislike the new NGC holders.After doing a circular crop on a coin in one of the new NGC slabs you are left with the plastic "fingers".They make the images ugly. So why do I use NGC?As an ANA member I don't have to pay to join NGC to get my coins graded.But I will have to rethink this and maybe join PCGS in order to get away from the NGC holders. Anyway, I did two crossovers to NGC. One was an 1834 "3 over inverted 3" (LM-1) half dime in an ICG EF-45 holder.No problems. See here: <img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/10hf-1834-3inv3-Final-cu-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> The other was an 1872 2-cent in an ANACS AU-50 holder.Dropped a whole grade to XF-40. See here: <img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/2-1872-Final-txt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Actually to be fair to NGC I don't know how ANACS ever graded this coin AU-50.The reverse in particular has quite a few dings.They are not obvious in my image because of the way I illuminate the coin.But look at the upper loop of the "2" and you can get a hint of what I'm saying.XF-40 is probably a realistic grade for this coin.It's just that I hate losing $400 in book value because of the downgrade.[/QUOTE]