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Message:: [QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 1274726, member: 24091"]My sentiments exactly. I especially like the old green tag PCGS holders, the grading was so conservative back then there isn't any need for a CAC sticker on one. I have some nice coins in PCGS holders, and generally I don't cross-over from one grading service to the other. That's a waste of money in my opinion. But the NGC holders are just plain superior, especially the edge view holders. The new PCGS edge-view holders somehow lack a real quality look to them, I think because the mounting tabs are identicle in width to the spaces between tabs. On an NGC edge-view, of course there are 4 tabs instead of 3, but they are smaller and have more of a museum archival look to them. The PCGS edge view look like something IKEA outsourced to China in my opinion. And then there is the issue of toning in holders. There were a number of proof eagle gold coins slabbed by PCGS a few years ago that turned red in the holders within 24 months. Was almost as if they were injecting sulfer dioxide into the slabs or something. I have no idea how coins could experience that kind of accelerated toning in a few short years. I had a few gold coins of my own that I had slabbed about the same time, both from Peru, that also turned red within 18 months. Probably the most amazing thing about it, not a word in the press, at least none that I saw.[/QUOTE]