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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1849595, member: 22004&quot;]I was just looking at the ICG grading guarantee:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.icgcoin.com/about/guarantee/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.icgcoin.com/about/guarantee/" rel="nofollow">http://www.icgcoin.com/about/guarantee/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What is the consensus on the ICG grading standards?&nbsp; From what I have seen Randy Campbell is literally <i>the</i> grader there.&nbsp; He is their public face at most of the coin shows, is extremely friendly and helpful offering free grade opinions, etc..&nbsp; At the FUN show he is one of the central characters, in fact I don&#039;t know what the Florida numismatic community would do without Randy.&nbsp; Here on the FUN site are a bunch of pictures of Randy presenting awards, starting at photo gallery image number 32:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.funtopics.com/fun-convention.html#PhotoGallery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.funtopics.com/fun-convention.html#PhotoGallery" rel="nofollow">http://www.funtopics.com/fun-convention.html#PhotoGallery</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But I see Skip Fazzari has joined ICG after being with NGC for so long.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone have thoughts on the reliability of their grading standards?&nbsp; Randy once told me that he considered luster the most important consideration on grading coins.&nbsp; One example of a coin I ran by him when he was at ANACS, a rare $20 Liberty gold coin that was in an ANACS 60 holder, Randy, when I showed it to him thought it was high end for grade and a 61 would have been acceptable to him.&nbsp; Whereas when I tried to cross it both to PCGS and NGC they both rejected it, and I spoke in person with Mark Salzburg at a Baltimore show and he said it was not Unc..&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So I am wondering what their core grading philosophies are that ICG seems to be more liberal than the others?&nbsp; And when Randy was grading at ANACS alongside Tim Hargis and Michael Fahey, were there significant disagreements that people heard about?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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