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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wanzewurld, post: 1405591, member: 37150&quot;]I hope I don&#039;t start a flame war but I like NGC better!&nbsp; The main reason is from a couple of articles I read talking about how relatively simple it is to crack and substitute the PCGS plastic holders; that may or may not be accurate but I bought a PCGS 2006 reverse&nbsp; proof ASE graded 70 and it came with awful brownish stains on obverse and reverse!&nbsp; The obverse stain covers about 80% of the sun!&nbsp; So far I&#039;ve been unable to get a determination from PCGS if it&#039;s legitimate.&nbsp; I&#039;d think something like a stain would be mentioned on the label if the coin graded a &quot;Perfect&quot; 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the slabbed coins I own are NGC partly because of that one (non-returnable) purchase and partly because that&#039;s just what I wanted happened to be in an NGC slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, a bit off-topic and possibly worthy of a thread of its own: I&#039;ve got a few hundred or so ASE&#039;s I got from various sources but all purchased in the current year (mostly) and I&#039;d like to have some of them slabbed. My quandary is I don&#039;t want anything less than a MS69! I&#039;ve got a bunch of sealed coins I bought from Littleton and I did notice they were mostly lower quality by virtue of not seeing parallel stripes on Liberty&#039;s gown or on the flag so I know, while they are uncirculated, they wouldn&#039;t grade very high; past that, what are some of the indicators graders look for on ASE&#039;s that would denote a 69 or 70?&nbsp; I&#039;ve looked at the two grades side-by-side under 30X magnification and have yet to find a difference between the two!&nbsp; If someone could please post or send me an address so I can educate myself I&#039;d be forever grateful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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