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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2488686, member: 24314&quot;]Unfortunately, I&#039;ve been told that TPGS rarely weigh coins or take specific gravity tests and they have not for decades.&nbsp; I do know that ANACS weighed and photographed every coin sent in during the first years of operation.&nbsp; As the counterfeits got better and closer to mint tolerances, weights were no longer as useful. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a shame this was the case as we would have had a good record for all of us to fall back on today.&nbsp; Additionally, after 1986, the staff at PCGS and NGC rarely even used microscopes to authenticate coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, it is too late for them to recover all the lost info and diagnostics from the decades that none of this was done. Today, at least the TPGS are photographing many coins again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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