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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValpoBeginner, post: 2705290, member: 77066&quot;]I could, but am not into PMG as much as PCGS. And then the issues.....</p><p><br /></p><p>First problem.... bills and banknotes, as opposed to coins, have serial numbers.....And since I bought this from ebay it could be tracked if cracked out and resubmitted.&nbsp; I wonder if they cross reference serials across corporate boundaries....idk..... But if it worked &#039;m sure that the grade would come back as 66EPQ. I think with PMG, their focus is on the fancy stuff, their website, their holders, and their customer&#039; s repeat busines. In other words, I believe that PCGS has better paid, highly qualified, and more objective graders.&nbsp; But many people, dealers assistants mostly,&nbsp; I&#039;ve talked with at shows use PMG because they have a reputation of giving out higher grades.&nbsp; But if you talk to the collectors they appear to be mainly PCGS collector customers.&nbsp; Once I sat at the PCGS booth at a show chatting with attractive young woman for two hours, while people came to get their graded notes that they submitted.&nbsp; Their was no one picking up more than 3 notes, and most just got one or two graded at the show.&nbsp; This was the last half of the last day of the show and she was busy, so I probably saw about 15 or so people picking up their notes.</p><p>Im pretty sure that most were hobbiests like me, and not dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all it is a busines, and more customers making more money off selling their higher grade notes, means that more business comes their way from the majority of the note submitters, the dealers, who get more notes graded than anyone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand........ I do like some things about PMG better.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most important thing I like better about PMG is their holders,&nbsp; with the exception of them not putting the plate numbers on them.&nbsp; I like the way that the edges are sealed by that distinctive crimp and also their ultra violet detectable PMG logo. Please let me know if I am wrong, but I believe PMG actually seals the note all the way around, so it&#039;s airtight, thus starving the note of air, which I&#039;ve been told is somehow not good for the note.&nbsp; PCGS has a special plastic for their holders and on the tape across the top they do not seal the edges so the note can breathe. But PMG&#039;s holders are more stylish, and they always fit into my BMG pages in my Album. </p><p><br /></p><p>Boy, I guess I needed to really get that out! went on and on.., but it&#039;s not Gospel, just my opinion...... hope that someone can give me an opposing viewpoint on PMG and PCGS, Id like to know more about PMG fans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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