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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 101808, member: 2761&quot;]First, Star Grading Service (SGS) is <b>NOT</b> a legit grading service by any stretch of the imagination.&nbsp; They are owned and operated by the eBay powerseller, Aboncom who takes coins, slabs them as MS70 or PR70 (for about 99.9% of them) and then sells them to people that believe they are buying an independent, 3rd partied graded coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is NOTHING 3rd partied about this.&nbsp; In my humble opinion, he goes to his local bank in Ohio and gets a bunch of bank rolls and goes through them to pull the &quot;pretty&quot; ones and they are then sold via eBay as a perfect 70 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Their certificate of authenticity is only good for bird cage bottoms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another collector bought some SGS coins and sent them off to PCGS (I believe) for grading and these SGS &quot;graded&quot; PR70 coins came back as:</p><p><br /></p><p>1 - 03370368 1960 1C Large Date USA PR66RD </p><p>2 - 03370369 1970-S 1C Large Date USA PR66RD </p><p>3 - 03370370 1974-S 1C USA PR66RD </p><p>4 - 03370371 1976-S 1C USA PR65CA </p><p><br /></p><p>He did that just to prove a point that what he got was in fact NO WAY NEAR a 70 grade.&nbsp; Keep in mind, these are for PROOFS and it gets worst for MS grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, take my advice...stay with PCGS, NGC, ANACS and ICG and sometimes you may get lucky with SEGS and PCI.&nbsp; The rest of them are pure trash and even if you deduct points, you will be out some hard earned dollars.&nbsp; Let&#039;s put it this way, if you have some coins you would like to buy that are MS70 grades, PM me, because I have my own &quot;grading&quot; service too!&nbsp; Please note the gold foil tape for your &quot;protection&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go ahead and search this forum and others for SGS or Star Grading Service and you will see for yourself!&nbsp; Think of SGS as putting lipstick on a pig...you can only do so much with makeup and perfume to dress up junk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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