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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7726989, member: 24314"]I cannot speak for what any TPGS (except ICG) is doing <span style="color: #b30000">at this time</span> - especially NGC Ancients BUT this is a fact:</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading came into existence to DESCRIBE what a coin looked like when you could not see it and NOT to price it. Therefore, describing any mark INTO a coin that fits the dictionary definition of a hole as a "hole" would be misleading. </p><p><br /></p><p>That's why in order for a coin to be determined to have a HOLE, light MUST PASS THROUGH it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Otherwise, it is a plugged HOLE. Any other depression into a coin's surface is given another name. They are not called "holes." </p><p><br /></p><p>I think most of the <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> folks in the world including myself understand this intuitively although if asked to dig a <b>HOLE</b> for a fence post they know it will not go completely through to China! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7726989, member: 24314"]I cannot speak for what any TPGS (except ICG) is doing [COLOR=#b30000]at this time[/COLOR] - especially NGC Ancients BUT this is a fact: Grading came into existence to DESCRIBE what a coin looked like when you could not see it and NOT to price it. Therefore, describing any mark INTO a coin that fits the dictionary definition of a hole as a "hole" would be misleading. That's why in order for a coin to be determined to have a HOLE, light MUST PASS THROUGH it. ;) Otherwise, it is a plugged HOLE. Any other depression into a coin's surface is given another name. They are not called "holes." I think most of the :bucktooth: folks in the world including myself understand this intuitively although if asked to dig a [B]HOLE[/B] for a fence post they know it will not go completely through to China! :p:D[/QUOTE]
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