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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 8400268, member: 89314&quot;]I have little experience of NGC and I prefer unslabbed coins which I can weigh and measure and where I can examine the edge. I understand they are excellent for modern coins from the 18th century on but in my experience they are unreliable for early modern and medieval coins and also, I believe, for ancients. I have had a number of such NGC slabbed coins where the identification was wrong. A recent attempt to get them to explain how they came up with their identification of a 16th century Dutch coin was very unsatisfactory. Their reply was simply &quot;Our graders examined the coin and after examination that is what they believe the coin is.&quot;&nbsp; An expert on the series in Europe later confirmed to me that the&nbsp; coin was an 18th century copy. What surprised me was that they really did not seem to care if a wrongly identified coin in a NGC slab was out there and seemed to have no interest in correcting it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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