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Message:: [QUOTE="sjnebay, post: 57761, member: 1665"]NGC and, I suspect, PCGS send the coins to "Quality Control" after they are graded. The whole point of quality control is to ensure 100% accuracy. Errors don't cost NGC a penny, but they do cost the owner of the coin hundreds of dollars. An error is inexcusable, especially one that is the magnitude of an incorrect date. How could something so blatant get by quality control? The fact that they bb'd a coin as having been cleaned that they shouldn't have, also should never have gotten by QC. I can not believe that anyone  experiencing the errors with NGC that I have, would believe a TPG slab holds an ounce of credibility. I believe that their marketing could truely be interpreted by the FTC, whom I will be contacting, as "...false and misleading" adverstising since their determination of a coin's grade is no better than the average (notice I said average and not highly experienced) numismatist. For no matter how hard you or other collectors find it to believe that a professional grader can grade 1000 coins per day with any degree of accuracy - the fact remains they do it. Obviosly - they do not! And because of their perceived purpose and self-promoted reputation, they are supposed to. By the way, please read David Bowers' column in the current Coin World. If I'm not mistaken, he was the founder of NGC, and his current column is anything but glowing.[/QUOTE]