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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beginner345, post: 3227050, member: 96725&quot;]it doesn&#039;t assure authenticity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to clear something up...</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; While NGC will only encapsulate coins they <i>believe</i> are authentic,<b> they don&#039;t claim those rulings are necessarily accurate.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Where ancient coins are concerned, <b>NGC only guarantees their grading.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Theres much of a debate regarding some of their grading</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC neither claims nor certifies that coins they slab are authentic.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated at the following page from NGC&#039;s site, &quot;...due to the inconsistency of opinions on these matters in the marketplace, no guarantee is made or implied about the authenticity of coins graded by NGC Ancients.&quot; That statement pretty much sums it up. NGC does not claim that a coin in one of their slabs is necessarily authentic. Their encapsulation and labeling should not be thought of as a certification of authenticity. It is therefore a mistake to suggest that an encapsulated coin has been guaranteed authentic by NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.NGCcoin.com/specialty-s...e-grade.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.NGCcoin.com/specialty-s...e-grade.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.NGCcoin.com/specialty-s...e-grade.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen fakes in NGC slabs before. its rare but it does happen</p><p><br /></p><p>and then you paid all that for nothing.</p><p>I would rather have a coin OUT of the slab, to save money and to have it in my hand if I wanted to.</p><p><br /></p><p>So as I said, it doesn&#039;t assure authenticity, all it does is give you a higher chance that it is authentic .</p><p><br /></p><p>If you spend a few years talking to experts you can notice the difference between MOST fakes and most real ones. I have only been doing this a couple years and I am a fast learner but I still have MUCH to learn[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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