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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3314019, member: 71723&quot;]Last night was the &quot;make up date&quot; for the Red Rose Coin Club of Lancaster, PA Annual Awards Banquet. I was a single, so I grabbed a seat at a table with a single open seat. Our original date was wiped out by a freakish November 15 snowstorm, so of course it snowed again last night, but we soldiered on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was seated next to the club&#039;s Treasurer whom I had known casually for a few years, but I never knew what he collected. In conversation, he brought up his recent experience &quot;crossing&quot; various slabbed MS67RD Lincoln Cents to PCGS. He had gathered up 15 and taken them to the most recent Baltimore Whitman show and dropped them off at PCGS. He asked me to guess how many of the 15 crossed. I assumed he was talking all NGC coins, but I was wrong. I guessed 5 crossed. He was amazed. I got it right - 5 of 15 crossed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what got my attention - &quot;most&quot; of his MS67RD crossing candidates were in PCI holders!!! In fact, 9 were. All 9 failed to cross. 2 coins were NGC and they both DID cross to PCGS. The other 4 were miscellaneous &quot;junk slabs&quot; and 3 of the 4 DID CROSS!!! This about blew my head apart. Was PCI always that &quot;out to lunch&quot; (I&#039;ve never owned one) or did their inserts/slabs actually damage the coins? Whatchathink!</p><p><br /></p><p>This guy is ALSO emblematic of an attitude that has too much traction in the central PA coin community - that all slabs are equal. I know tons of guys here who believe that, and they SHOWER the lesser companies with coins. All to save a buck up front, without realizing this dog bites at the BACK end![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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