Ngc's Way Of Grading Canadian Coins?

however I think the VF to AU could be expanded to really G-4 to AU-58. Lots of examples of them giving harshly cleaned key date KGV half dollars that realistically are Fine details at best a straight grade VF-20 grade.

Circulated Newfoundland coins they're even worse at grading.

I wouldn't call it unreasonable.

The reason you will probably see me call out PCGS and NGC for their lack of grading skills with circulated Canadian material more than ICCS is because of how high a standard they (the US TPGs) place on themselves, specifically PCGS.

There is really nothing to say about ICCS that hasn't already been said, their holders are flimsy, they often straight grade cleaned or otherwise damaged coins, their lack of a website up until a couple months ago, etc etc. whereas there still seems to be this idea that when the major US TPGs do these things (grade obvious details coins, grossly overgrading coins, etc), there is almost always a large amount of damage control and or benefit of the doubt given that ICCS doesn't seem to get, despite the fact that given the massive price differences they charge, the US TPGs should be the ones held to a higher standard if anything.





Because PCGS coins trade better, not because they're necessarily better at grading.