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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3314580, member: 24314&quot;]baseball21, posted: &quot;<b><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">You may have special access to NGC images</span></b>, but for the rest of us basically the only place we get NGC images is from the cert verification lookup and their lookup is more restrictive than PCGS is by forcing you to enter the grade.&nbsp; PCGS still shows the images on the cert page and a few in coin facts.&nbsp; Other than that they went to the same method NGC is doing with their image database overall.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that some people are disappointing by that and that&#039;s fine, but some are using it for a soapbox rant and choose to just insult someone pointing that out with childish name calling as a response instead of actually looking at the facts of what was done.</p><p><br /></p><p>Programs could have taken down double images in a matter of minutes in the middle of the night and no one would have known anything.&nbsp; There&#039;s more to it than people just trying to take shots at them want us to believe.&nbsp; NGC had done the same with their picture database long before PCGS did it.&nbsp; There&#039;s no view all images on the NGC site but no one is going after them for that.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>While I graded for NGC at one time (before they had an imaging department), I&#039;m a nobody with no special access.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I feel the pain of all the folks who used Coinfacts to look up coins and then post images of the identical coin graded higher.&nbsp; Now the <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> little trolls <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> are out of luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>My ONLY use for Coinfacts was to compare the micro-diagnostics of very rare coins.&nbsp; Decades ago, I would need to go to the National Collection or ANS to examine &quot;special&quot; coins.&nbsp; Now that the images still provided on Coinfacts do not magnify to their former powers, the site is virtually useless for my needs. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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