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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oldbucks, post: 308688, member: 10204&quot;]CGC was the only one to use hard plastic holders. I believe they have flexible ones also now. The hard ones were a pain to carry around and took up too much room. For coin items the hard ones make sense, but the currency market just did not accept them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only ones I would suggest using are: <font face="Arial">PMG,PCGS,CGA,RCGS,CGC</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">Right now they are all fighting on who is the best. PMG and PCGS are the new kids on the block for currency grading. Since they started 2 years ago, they are trying to establish some type of standard, but they conflict. Their guarantees are not real decisive, since they have to disagree with what they previously graded....its a bunch of marketing smoke they are blowing in my opinion. Errors do happen with graded notes, and you will see the competition making a mountain out of a mole hill on those mistakes of the their competitors. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">The ANA offers courses in currency grading, I also suggest reading up on grading techinques. I do not really care for the TPG notes. (Third Party Graders). I have been conservatively grading for years and use published standards to go by.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">Jeff</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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