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How often does PVC get by NGC and PCGS?

dan1ecudan1ecu Posts: 1,573
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Are they pretty good at spotting it and not slabbing coins that have it?

Do you check your stored coins on occasion to be sure that no PVC spots have developed over time?

Dan
Dan McInnes

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I dunno about The Big Two, but ANACS once bodybagged a coin of mine for PVC. That's right! ANACS! A bodybag! image

    It was a gorgeous MS67-ish Dutch silver coin. I never did see anything on it.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    If the coin is toned they might miss a tiny spot or two but on white coins I think they will note the PVC. Maybe they have an employee with a good nose smell the coin for PVC.image
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PVC sniffing dogs! image

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Both services are pretty keen to catching PVC contamination on most coins.
    Follow me on Twitter @wtcgroup
    Authorized dealer for PCGS, PCGS Currency, NGC, NCS, PMG, CAC. Member of the PNG, ANA. Member dealer of CoinPlex and CCE/FACTS as "CH5"
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    DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    I've never seen one get through.

    Had one BB'd a few years back that took a 10-X loup and about a million candle power to see it. I was able to remove it and it did slab on the next go round a few months later.

    Good old olive oil for a few weeks followed by acetone baths.

    If the damage is significant, it's pretty much a lost cause.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I, too, have had ANACS bodybag for PVC. Couldn't see it, but it was their call... I guess.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

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