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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3138638, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;ve done it several times.&nbsp; &quot;Best&quot; holder is in the eye of the beholder.</p><p><br /></p><p>One reason I drink the PCGS Kool-Aid is because I can&#039;t get a good picture of a coin when it&#039;s in NGC plastic with those ghastly, intrusive white prongs, and having the PCGS TrueView image is important to me.&nbsp; If PCGS is charitable by a few grade points, it doesn&#039;t bother me - better that than the opposite.</p><p><br /></p><p>I prefer PCGS for everything medieval and later, though I use NGC for ancients.&nbsp; There have been a few exceptions- I will keep a coin in the NGC plastic if it&#039;s an older (non-prong) holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] and I are both also experiencing a problem with the NGC &quot;swelling slab&quot; issue.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/boards/topic/371379-defective-slab/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/boards/topic/371379-defective-slab/" rel="nofollow">&quot;Bloated&quot; slabs</a>.&nbsp; At least three of mine have that problem, and I have one that&#039;s so bulged out from trapped gases inside the plastic, it looks like it&#039;s about to explode.&nbsp; This is something they need to address.</p><p><br /></p><p>(It&#039;s almost enough for me to jump on bandwagon with the &quot;crack your ancients out and set them free&quot; crowd, but since the rest of my collection is slabbed, I&#039;m not quite ready to do that yet.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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