First Page
Previous Page
Posted 12/01/2011 11:08 am
All very true...
if ICCS stuck to "technical grading" or "details grading" ONLY, and was recognized as a partial grading service only...that'd be fine...they do a decent job of that.
But ICCS does put "cleaned", "harshly cleaned", "polished", "scratched"..etc..on their flips. So its not "technical grading only".
And in assessing coin damage, ICCS is the worst TPG in North America. Or put in another way, it has the loosest standards of any TPG, including less respected ones like ICG, ANACS.
This is the point I'm making.
Tell me SPP...what's worse, getting a coin labeled EF40 that's really VF30? Or getting a coin labeled VF30 that's actually a harshly cleaned damaged VF30?
What reduces the value of a coin more? Many collectors consider such damaged coins - valueless. You may not run across this in the MS64-MS65 world...
If ICCS regularly passes coins that are considered damaged by ALL US TPGs (PCGS, NGC, ANACS, ICG)...how can it possibly be called "the standard of Canadian coin grading", "the most respected coin grading service in Canada", etc...
I find a lot of resistance from collectors and I think it's due to fear. The fear that their collections may be filled with damaged coins they're unaware of.
I was shocked just how many ICCS coins came back body-bagged from PCGS...and some coins I really wouldn't have suspected...lesson learned
if ICCS stuck to "technical grading" or "details grading" ONLY, and was recognized as a partial grading service only...that'd be fine...they do a decent job of that.
But ICCS does put "cleaned", "harshly cleaned", "polished", "scratched"..etc..on their flips. So its not "technical grading only".
And in assessing coin damage, ICCS is the worst TPG in North America. Or put in another way, it has the loosest standards of any TPG, including less respected ones like ICG, ANACS.
This is the point I'm making.
Tell me SPP...what's worse, getting a coin labeled EF40 that's really VF30? Or getting a coin labeled VF30 that's actually a harshly cleaned damaged VF30?
What reduces the value of a coin more? Many collectors consider such damaged coins - valueless. You may not run across this in the MS64-MS65 world...
If ICCS regularly passes coins that are considered damaged by ALL US TPGs (PCGS, NGC, ANACS, ICG)...how can it possibly be called "the standard of Canadian coin grading", "the most respected coin grading service in Canada", etc...
I find a lot of resistance from collectors and I think it's due to fear. The fear that their collections may be filled with damaged coins they're unaware of.
I was shocked just how many ICCS coins came back body-bagged from PCGS...and some coins I really wouldn't have suspected...lesson learned
Edited by canadian-varieties
12/01/2011 11:09 am
12/01/2011 11:09 am
never mind the number on the package, let your own eyes be the judge.
