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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dreamer94, post: 167326, member: 6449&quot;]I think the fundamental issue here is credibility.&nbsp; If the certification services are willing to certify something that, by general agreement, doesn&#039;t exist, what else are they doing that is inaccurate?&nbsp; The problem is that they have an inherent conflict of interest.&nbsp; Their income depends on making customers happy, so they are motivated to upgrade and designate special categories that may or may not exist.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure that if NGC refused to designate coins as &quot;First Strike&quot; the dealers would find someone else to do it and NGC would lose a lot of business. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The best way to do this would be in the same way that scientific publications are reviewed.&nbsp; In the process of &quot;peer review&quot;, articles are sent to more than one independent reviewer.&nbsp; Each reviews the work without knowledge of the others&#039; reviews.&nbsp; If they disagree, an editor adjudicates.&nbsp; Neither the reviewer nor the editor stand to gain or lose financially depending on the outcome of the review.&nbsp; In fact, anyone with a financial interest in the subject of the paper is disqualified from reviewing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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