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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1442618, member: 29751"]I'm not going to spend the money on doing it, but I dare say that you would be surprised at the lack of consistency at PCGS (or NGC for that matter) if you were to take a sample of even 10 wildly toned coins that are currently holdered in non-details plastic, crack them out, and resubmit them to the <u><i>same </i></u>company that had originally holdered them. People forget two things when they talk about toned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>1) One has no idea how many times the same coin was submitted before it finally made it into a non-details holder. If you submit a coin 10 times or even 3 times and on the last submission it makes it into a graded holder, that doesn't mean that somehow it is now magically more special that it was the first times you submitted it. More marketable, yes. But it's the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Once the coin is in a non-details holder, even if you attempt a cross-over, I would guess that both of the big 2 would be less likely to turn away a toner that already made it past the muster of the other company. And, if they would, it would stay in it's current holder as it wouldn't quality for "cross".</p><p><br /></p><p>The downstream effect of these two factors means that if you are persistent you can get almost any crazy toned coin in an NGC or PCGS holder if you pay enough money and are patient enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1442618, member: 29751"]I'm not going to spend the money on doing it, but I dare say that you would be surprised at the lack of consistency at PCGS (or NGC for that matter) if you were to take a sample of even 10 wildly toned coins that are currently holdered in non-details plastic, crack them out, and resubmit them to the [U][I]same [/I][/U]company that had originally holdered them. People forget two things when they talk about toned coins. 1) One has no idea how many times the same coin was submitted before it finally made it into a non-details holder. If you submit a coin 10 times or even 3 times and on the last submission it makes it into a graded holder, that doesn't mean that somehow it is now magically more special that it was the first times you submitted it. More marketable, yes. But it's the same coin. 2) Once the coin is in a non-details holder, even if you attempt a cross-over, I would guess that both of the big 2 would be less likely to turn away a toner that already made it past the muster of the other company. And, if they would, it would stay in it's current holder as it wouldn't quality for "cross". The downstream effect of these two factors means that if you are persistent you can get almost any crazy toned coin in an NGC or PCGS holder if you pay enough money and are patient enough.[/QUOTE]
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