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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2309752, member: 24314&quot;]I do not like a loss of guarantee either.&nbsp; What good would they be if the Authenticity Guarantee is lost to <span style="color: #b30000">BUT&nbsp; </span>Look at their side:&nbsp; Copper coins develop spots after slabbing = lower grade.&nbsp; Silver Eagles develop spots after slabbing = lower grade.&nbsp; Modern Commemoratives develop spots after slabbing = lower grade (I believe this guarantee is still in force <span style="color: #b30000">yet IMO it should be ended also.&nbsp; </span>You can tell I don&#039;t do much slabbing...LOL. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, TPGS don&#039;t know what&#039;s on the coin and many time they change (doctored gold w/blue haze in old slabs!). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>TPGS are a big business today.&nbsp; When I was young, when ANACS made an authentication error ONLY THE AUTHENTICATION FEE WAS REFUNDED.&nbsp; No one sued anyone over it.&nbsp; ANACS was on a learning curve and they were the best (along with dealer consultants) we had.&nbsp; <span style="color: #b30000">Come to think about it...that may still be the case with PCGS so they do not need to pay more.&nbsp; </span>Anyone here know?&nbsp; One member wrote somewhere that there is nothing in writing about the PCGS guarantee on authentication!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do know for 100% (can only speak of one instance - there may be more and I will not say if it was ICG or ANACS) that one of them gave a dealer $$$ credit on future submissions when a coin that should not have &quot;crossed&quot; (MS vs PF) was cracked out in error.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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