NGC stirs up a hornets nest.

CVCC, and perhaps others, are considering leaving the NGC community due to the recent announcement that PCGS coins would no longer be allowed in competitive foreign sets. I believe this is not entirely warranted for the following reasons:

1. Their is no indication that PCGS coins will be dis-enrolled, the Collection Manager can still be used to manage our collections.

2. The NGC community of collecttors is an excellent source of friendship, fellowship, and expertise.

3. Custom sets, the most creative portion of our community, will be greatly enhanced by new sets derived from high grade competetive sets.

4. Most of us make a real effort to have mostly NGC coins in our set, This will shake-out those collections that have attained high ranking despite containing a high percentage of PCGS coins.

5. finally, it's not like PCGS is suddenly providing a viable alternative, i.e. announcing that NGC world coins are welcome in their registry sets.

We all suspect the same sort of mandate will also occur on the U.S. side of the house sometime in the foreseeable future. If that occurs, I will stay put for the same five reasons I cited above. I hope you do too.

Later,

Malcolm

Pictured, my newly purchased, but yet to arrive P C G S 1937 Roanoke Commemorative Half: