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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 3048164, member: 71642&quot;]I was going to post this one somewhere, so why not here?&nbsp; A not quite recent purchase I got in a &#039;cleaned&#039; PCGS slab.&nbsp; Bought it for my Dansco Type, so cleaned is acceptable, plus it&#039;s a nice variety.&nbsp; The coin has a respectable amount of die polish not showing too well in the photo, but in the coin show lights it appeared they did not cross the devices.&nbsp; Paid kind of strong money for a cleaned coin, but it has flash and, like I said, was a cool variety I didn&#039;t have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Got it home, cracked it out and stuck in the album.&nbsp; Looked at it several times&nbsp; and for the life of me thought the &#039;excessive&#039; lines were die polish, and nothing overtly cleaned, though certainly not a trauma free coin.&nbsp; The Japanese Mint often engaged in exuberant die polishing back in the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I was getting a submission ready for NGC and figured what the heck and pulled it out of the album.&nbsp; NGC graded it straight...and now I have to decide if I want to stick it back in the album.&nbsp; It looked good there, but now exceeds my mental limit in value for a crack-for-album coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general PCGS is doing more Japanese coins these days, and is slabbing more varieties.&nbsp; On the other hand, I agree with NGC.&nbsp; Decisions, decisions.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]762096[/ATTACH]</p><p>Japan 1 yen, 1870/Meiji 3.&nbsp; Type II.&nbsp; NGC MS-62 ex. PCGS Unc Details, cleaned.&nbsp; 38.58 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep going with &#039;Big Coins&#039; (or medals etc).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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