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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1579133, member: 39508&quot;]Not my claims - but I know the owner of CCCS, during the 2007 RCNA convention in Ottawa, when he introduced those slabs, took one of his slabbed coins and threw it in hotel&#039;s water fountain for a full day and night - then pulled the coin out the next day to display for everyone to inspect. Water proof in the strictest sense of the word?? Probably not, especially with any decent water pressure - but certainly enough to protect your coins from flooding (which was the example given earlier in this thread).</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to prove it you - but I like to play the registry set game, so I don&#039;t have any of my coins in CCCS hard slabs. Plus, their grading is not as consistent as PCGS (I am a PCGS fan for grading of Canadian coins). Most collectors I know use CCCS to slab error coins or one of the oddball Canadian varieties - because simply it is cheaper than sending error coins south of the border to NGC or PCGS - we have no other alternatives for hard slabs up here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with you 100% about the lack of advertisement with this company and their website. They are shooting themselves in the foot with such a poor marketing strategy - a fact well known in the Canadian collecting community. Also, the owner of CCCS (Louis Chevrier) owns Lower Canada Auctions: <a href="http://www.lowercanadaauction.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lowercanadaauction.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lowercanadaauction.com/</a> (a potential conflict of interest, in my opinion, especially when auctioning off CCCS certified coins) - so they dropped the ball with advertising completely - that poor website has not been updated since like 2004... In my opinion, if they really wanted to market their stuff, they should have a slabbed coin sitting inside a fish tank, right on a table at a coin show...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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