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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2094138, member: 73489&quot;]<font size="5"><b>Are there any PCGS or NGC slabs that some of you would believe to be associated with &#039;looser&#039; grading standards for particular coins or entire years, and caution should be excercised? </b></font>I keep hearing and reading conflicting stories: avoid some years, it&#039;s much-ado-about-nothing, or maybe the differences were minute and you&#039;re talking about maybe 1/2 grade off at most (which I can&#039;t probably tell).&nbsp; Worst case, God Forbid, any times where doctored or counterfeit coins may have slipped by the TPGs at a somewhat higher rate ?</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">Here&#039;s what I am looking at right now:</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">(1)&nbsp; MORGAN SILVER DOLLARS:</span></b>&nbsp; A PCGS &quot;5&quot; slab from the mid<span style="color: #000000">-to-late 1990&#039;s.&nbsp; Also, a PCGS &quot;15&quot; slab from 2004+</span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><b>(2)&nbsp; SAINT GAUDENS $20:</b></span>&nbsp; An NGC holder that appears to be from 2005+, it looks like the modern ones that have the coin grabbed by clasps so it&#039;s not completely encircled by plastic. <b>Also.....a PCGS coin where I can&#039;t ID the slab</b>, it says &quot;T<i>he Standard For the Coin Industry</i>&quot; on the back along with a greenish-hologram looking &quot;PCGS&quot; on the right side. Is this legit ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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