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Message:: [QUOTE="illini420, post: 1098906, member: 19423"]Just read this thread for the first time and it seems that many here may misunderstand this technology.  The sniffer is designed to detect many different substances, but those substances aren't necessarily "banned" nor will the detection of those substances on the coin automatically result in a coin becomming ungradable.  If anything is detected on the coin, whether it be nose grease, blue ribbon or urine, a printout of the subtance(s) detected and location of the substances on the coin are passed along with the coin to the grading room where the graders will then do their job and determine if the coin is gradable.   The information from the sniffer seems to be a tool to provide the grader with some additional information on a coin they may or may not already be able to see with their eyes.  But at the end of the day, the grader is still the one who is the judge on whether or not the coin is gradable, not the sniffer.   Accordingly, I'm sure that some coins that have things detected on them by the sniffer will still end up in holders if the graders determine they are very minor treatments or market acceptable treatments.  But overall, if the technology helps the graders in "seeing" the work of the coin doctors and removing the big problem coins from the market, then it would be hard to be against that.[/QUOTE]