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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wash, post: 918548, member: 24983&quot;]I did my best making photos of a slab.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7707/img1ov.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/430/img2jx.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;ve written, seller washes his hands clean, no respond from grading company.</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to the polish graders:</p><p>1. GCN&nbsp; &quot;Gliwickie centrum numizmatyczne&quot; stands for &quot;Gliwice (polish city) Numismatic Center&quot;. It is the most popular grading company in PL (coops with british ECC) <a href="http://eccgrading.pl/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eccgrading.pl/" rel="nofollow">ECC (european coin company) GCN</a>. Working as graders since 2006.</p><p>It is quite widespread that they business (selling their grading coins on polish e-bay and by themselves) and grading itself makes them not really trustworthy as they are interested in price. There are also a lot of disappointed people (I know one myself and it is quite remarkable because I&#039;m NOT a coin collector and I know almost nothing about), who gave them brand new pieces and got 69&#039;s, and soon after company sold some exactly type, but 70&#039;s on polish e-bay... I&#039;m not saying that they acctually switch coins to get some more money, it is simply the spoken reason there are a lot of people who don&#039;t even consider using this grader (the matter of trust).</p><p>If you&#039;re interested in photos of slabs, you will find some <a href="http://www.allegro.pl/show_user_auctions.php?uid=7543000" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.allegro.pl/show_user_auctions.php?uid=7543000" rel="nofollow">here </a></p><p><br /></p><p>2. &quot;Polski Grading&quot; stands for &quot;polish grading&quot;. There was a kind of situation in 2008/9 that a lot of empty slabs were sold on e-bay, and soon after for a short period of time you could find graded coins with this brand. Don&#039;t know anything more about, have never seen slabs. More you&#039;ll probably find on polish coin boards.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. PCG (Polskie Centrum Gradingowe stands for <a href="http://www.pcggrading.pl/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcggrading.pl/" rel="nofollow">Polish Grading Center</a>). One that graded morgan dollar above. No contact yet with them - graded coin was suspicious even for newbie. They have been working since 2008.</p><p>As you can see they have nice hologram with the name of the company and two faces looking left and right (something like olive wreath on that heads). Slab with letters PCG (back - top left corner) - my is intact and nicely glued (didn&#039;t test it in water<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I have heard some positives about this company - they don&#039;t sell their graded products directly. It is quite nice in polish conditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided not to send it back (I bought it for about 25$) and keep it to remind me to always stay vigilant.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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