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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 622375, member: 5629&quot;]There&#039;s no contradiction.&nbsp; In order to be a contradiction, the terminology would have to come from the same source, which they do not.&nbsp; The term bodybag originated with the Third Party Graders themselves.&nbsp; The term is used by PCGS in their own FAQs.&nbsp; It is a term used to identify a coin which does not meet to their standards for grading.&nbsp; The term &quot;body bag&quot; is used by the Third Party Graders to identify a condition of a coin that is undesirable.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term &quot;coffin&quot;, on the other hand, represents a term used by the collector community.&nbsp; More specifically, it is a term used, more or less, by those who view placing the coin &quot;permanently&quot; into a plastic encasing to be a necessarily bad thing, as you, the collector, are no longer able to view the true beauty of the coin, including luster, intricacies in the fields, even hold the coin and feel the cold metal against your skin.&nbsp; Being barred from these activities is viewed by some to be a necessarily bad thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both &quot;body bag&quot; and &quot;coffin&quot; are derogatory terms in the numismatic community, but they are terms that are usually used in their intended form by two different poles of the numismatic community for two different purposes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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