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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 140905, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;ve never submitted a coin to be graded in my life - to any grading company. But that certainly doesn&#039;t mean I don&#039;t know how to grade them. Nor does it mean that I don&#039;t know how the grading companies will grade them. The same goes for Speedy - or anyone else that knows how to grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you well know, the reason he is saying it is because PCGS has less stringent standards for a coin to qualify as FBL than NGC does.How much they sell for has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a coin can be assigned the FBL designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who don&#039;t know - for PCGS to assign the FBL designation to a Franklin <u>only</u> the bottom bell lines must be clear and unbroken. For NGC to assign the FBL designation <u>both</u> the bottom and the top bell lines must be clear and unbroken.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You always come back to this comment as if it is the be all end all definitive statement that proves somehow that PCGS is better in some way than NGC. For the life of me I cannot see the logic in this, especially when there is such a difference in the standards that the two companies use for special designations. </p><p><br /></p><p>If anything, the fact that people are willing to pay more for a coin slabbed by the company with less stringent standards, this only tells me that those people are foolish. Or that they don&#039;t know any better. Of course it could also tell me that they are merely playing the PCGS registry game and in order to score points the coin <u>has</u> to be slabbed by PCGS - even if they do have less stringent standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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