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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2441456, member: 24314"]I believe Larry founded SEGS grading service when a deal to either buy PCI or become a partner fell through in the mid 1990's.  SEGS is located in Chattanooga where PCI once was and a former PCI manager, Adrian was/still is a manager(?) at SEGS. [USER=78919]@Ollyoccia[/USER] My advice is not to send the coin to another TPGS as it may drop to an MS-63.  If you chance it and it does cross to an MS-64 at PCGS you will be ahead of the game but then you'll have no "hard" evidence in your case. Chances are your coin is not 100% original, that's why the big drop in grade.  I suspect some sort of surface alteration that was missed the first time around.  That's the only way a coin can drop as yours has done as it is very flashy and probably has virtually no marks.  In my experience, most dealers and collectors cannot detect this type of alteration.  If your coin has a bluish haze that is a 100% clue to one form of chemical alteration done to gold.[/QUOTE]