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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 25773501, member: 15309"]I have always been an NGC guy, for decades now. I never liked the look of the clear plastic PCGS holders, loved the way toned coins look against the white NGC holders, and as a toning enthusiast, have an affinity for the star designation. In addition, I never liked the way that PCGS ranks their registry sets, or the fact that they exclude NGC coins. As a result, all of my registry sets are in the NGC Registry. Because of this, I gravitate towards NGC graded coins and almost exclusively use NGC for grading of my raw coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been working on a registry set of war nickels where each nickel must be a "homemade" coin, with me as the submitter. As you can imagine, finding a raw 43/2-P is not easy. This is the 2nd one I have found, and now NGC has details graded them both. I need the coin to be graded in order to include it in my registry set, which currently ranks 27th with the coin as UNC Details.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only recourse was to crack the coin out and submit to PCGS, which is exactly what I did. When I get the coin back, I will let everyone know how I fared.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 25773501, member: 15309"]I have always been an NGC guy, for decades now. I never liked the look of the clear plastic PCGS holders, loved the way toned coins look against the white NGC holders, and as a toning enthusiast, have an affinity for the star designation. In addition, I never liked the way that PCGS ranks their registry sets, or the fact that they exclude NGC coins. As a result, all of my registry sets are in the NGC Registry. Because of this, I gravitate towards NGC graded coins and almost exclusively use NGC for grading of my raw coins. I have been working on a registry set of war nickels where each nickel must be a "homemade" coin, with me as the submitter. As you can imagine, finding a raw 43/2-P is not easy. This is the 2nd one I have found, and now NGC has details graded them both. I need the coin to be graded in order to include it in my registry set, which currently ranks 27th with the coin as UNC Details. My only recourse was to crack the coin out and submit to PCGS, which is exactly what I did. When I get the coin back, I will let everyone know how I fared.[/QUOTE]
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