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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 7566931, member: 31286&quot;]Timing is important.&nbsp; I got a coin graded by NGC last month and it only took 10 days to get it back.&nbsp; It was an unusual and quite rare gold coin but because it was clearly a details coin it&#039;s value fit into a lower tier.&nbsp; They completely messed up the grading (they left off the mintmark in the final capsule) but they also owned the mistake and with a wee bit of encouragement the coin went back and forth to them for correction via overnight mail both ways.&nbsp; I was concerned but grateful they came through.&nbsp; So ...&nbsp; I have a leading set on their registry (1840 mint set) which would be winning whether or not it was only NGC coins, but it makes perfect sense to me that they accept and give the same points to coins graded by either service.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never considered crossing a coin just to get it into a registry set, and partly for that reason the NGC registry is far more fun and interesting than the PGCS only folks. When they stopped accepting PCGS coins I lost interest in them (NGC).&nbsp; This 1840 set is a mixture of NGC and PCGS.&nbsp; A little less than half of these have CAC cert.&nbsp; Three coins in the set are not pictured here, including an AU details 1840D quarter eagle and a couple of dimes.&nbsp; I am looking forward to including the CAC designations, with or without extra points.&nbsp; My experience of CAC is that they favor coins with original surfaces and as a result I&#039;ve learned a lot about what is original and what is not.&nbsp; It&#039;s not always easy to tell, but then sometimes it&#039;s pretty obvious when a coin does not have original surfaces.&nbsp; Most of the coins in this set at least might have original surfaces -[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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