Peterkin

Perhaps the spambotter's attention was attracted by such potentially provocative words as "naked" and "pussy" in the above posts. Ah, Marina, you vixen! ... would that it were so.

Agreed. - as an undiscovered variety‽. But then again, those folks may only be repeating the grade that they were sold the coin as by some nice dealer, and only trying to recoup their outlay.

At the risk of a few Boooos from the gallery: I am actually in favour of slabbing. It has its faults, but I think is an improvement, or at least a move in the right direction, on the state of buying/ selling and collecting pre-slabbing, and which we still see in the unslabbed market on the likes of Ebay where, as numerous posts have observed, grades are routinely overstated. I'm also in favour of melting down a lot of the dross which we see again and again.

PCGS describe the codes on their website and NGC describe their version of "Details" on their website. The following is from PCGS: No Grade Description 82 Filed Rims 83 Peeling Lamination 84 Holed and Plugged 90 Not Genuine 91 Questionable Color 92 Cleaning 93 Planchet Flaw 94 Altered Surfaces 95 Scratch / Rim Dent 97 Environmental Damage 98 Damage 99 PVC Residue Overall I'm in favour of weeding out "Details" coins, and for that I think TPGs provide a useful service to numismatics. Doesn't mean of course that the coin won't subsequently be deslabbed and offered to the coin buying public without the "Details" accolade, but at least while they reside in their sarcophagai؟, the buying public are spared. Not to say of course that TPG slabs are not faked from time to time. What's that you say? Buy the coin, not the slab? Sometimes, on the other hand the rubric for some is, "Sell the slab, not the coin"¡!

Remember also that NGC's EF, is the American EF which is equivalent to a bit more than the English "about good".