For A Good Time About A TPG I Never Heard Of Before, Read This!

Isn't it nice to not have to read nasty comments on everything (like some other boards, youtube, disqus, etc.)?

Sorry basebal21, I did not mean to infer that, I was just referring to dipping because it was in the complaint. I have heard, however, that if one of the real TPG detects or suspects a dipping, on the label it will show it as an "cleaned" coin (improperly or otherwise), but I could be wrong on that. no offence. as a matter of fact, I highly suspect if you do send in a coin to the NGC conservation service, dipping is possibly the first thing that they do, but I do not know that for a fact, but, if true, since you paid the big bucks to use their conservation service they will not refer on the coin label that it is a "cleaned" coin. Or maybe NGC does not consider or mention on the label that a dipping as a "cleaned" coin at all because, as you say, it is not an issue and I have no reason to question that. However this is all just one big guess from me on all of that, I was basically quoting some of the stuff in the complaint... mike

I agree.

However, it must be said that dipping is an art and a science. It is most definitely in the category of activities prefaced with the warning "These are trained professionals, do not try this at home!" That is, you need to really, really, really know what you are doing before attempting it on something of significant value.

Agreed.

This is one of my rare cases that I am learning the first time. Usually I have to make a mistake at least once or twice before I learn my lesson. However, when it comes to coins, I like to take no chances, even to the point of being overly-caution. PCGS also has a conservation program similar to NCS, but PCGS does not farm the coin out to a company-related service like NCS, who, in the cases that they consider the coin a candidate for conservation, PCGS does not imply that another company or service like NCS will do the conservation, PCGS simply says that they will do it. I have also heard of cases of coins being sent in to t.p.g. companies for just grading sometimes contact the owner before they do and tell you that in their opinion the coin would benefit from a conservation before it is graded. About a year ago I sent in a 2012 gold proof coin which looked perfect to me, altho it had to be somewhat circulated around between the original owner and seller at the least, and it came back as a 70. You could have knocked me and my local coin shop over with a feather seeing that. Rarely do I have that kind of luck with coins. As a matter of fact, I am convinced that NGC under-graded one of my coins, it was graded as a 67 and I had been convinced that it was a 68 at the least and should be a 69. Oh well, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

Speaking of which, there was two guys out camping when an aggressive grizzly bear came along. It was obvious the bear was going to attack. One of the guys started taking off his shoes. His frightened companion asked him "why are you doing that... do you think you can outrun a grizzly bear? His buddy replied "No... I only have to outrun YOU".

crickets.