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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 209563, member: 4373&quot;]Probably a good example of &quot;buy the coin, not the slab&quot;. I don&#039;t care whatever the slabs say. As long as you know what is better, that is all is what matters. Some ridicious experiment done on a morgan dollar was sent off 10 times to the same company and it was graded from MS63-66 and it&#039;s not from MS66 to MS63 but instead down and up and down etc. Now you call that VERY reliable. (was NGC or PCGS I believe, not other third party slabbing companies)</p><p><br /></p><p>Luster detection makes zero sense. If you can compare UNCs of the same coins, it can be possible that you have different states of lustre as you have various factors such as </p><p><br /></p><p>1) different alloy mixture or improper mixture</p><p>2) state of die</p><p>3) pressure of the die striking coin</p><p><br /></p><p>If it weights right and has all the right details, there wouldn&#039;t be any other reasons that it&#039;s a counterfeit, unless it&#039;s some mad counterfeit. Because NGC and PCGS are American companies, they have better detection rates for Americian coins. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for foreign coins and lately many high quality Russian counterfeits are being slabbed at the moment. </p><p><br /></p><p>Chances are, if these slabbing companes can&#039;t even detect that you&#039;ve got a counterfeit if it happen to be, they might as well call it a quit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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