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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2657464, member: 24314&quot;]Just watched the video, thanks.&nbsp; Full disclosure:&nbsp; I have met David on several occasions including ANA Summer Seminar (I was not in his course).&nbsp; Also, I have posted that I have a few ancients that I bought while working for a dealer selling everything (us, foreign, paper money, and ancients.&nbsp; Short and sweet, I am virtually totally ignorant about ancient coins however, I own the Sayles Set, Seaby, Becker, lots of auction cats., plus access to more reference books. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, <b>this was a film</b>.&nbsp; What we saw is probably not realistic.&nbsp;&nbsp; The hands belong to David.&nbsp; In the film he spent from 8 to 27 seconds looking at the coins and rarely used his hand lens.&nbsp; The NGC Ancient Division has grown enough to have needed to bring in more staff.&nbsp; They are doing something right and needed. Remember this was a film.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. IMO, there is no way anyone can examine, grade, and enter one of the ancients in the film <span style="color: #b30000">unless </span>the coins have already been attributed, entered into the computer, and the tracking labels applied to each coin in the box.&nbsp; That is how it is done at every TPGS.&nbsp; All the graders need to do is authenticate and enter their grade into the computer. </p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Yes they get groups of the same coin.&nbsp; The majority of coins on the market are not rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; No bad rap on NGC or David but this I know for certain. There is <b>NO WAY</b> any TPGS is going to detect a state-of-the-art counterfeit the way it is shown in the film.&nbsp; I suspect that someone must need to occasionally check the Internet plus previously graded coins, and reference books.&nbsp; This is in spite of the fact that most successful long-time professional dealers (no need to name a few) can pick up an ancient and tell if it is genuine, fake, or needs research in a very short period of time and be correct 97% of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my seminar instructors put it this way...When I authenticate a coin and it goes out in a slab, tens of thousands of people check my work hoping to prove my opinion wrong!&nbsp; All of us here are in that group helping to keep the TPGS honest whether we like/use ancient slabs or not.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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