Will Coin Grading "Improvements" Come to the Card Side?

[barrysloate]

Who is going to check CAC's grading to make sure they got it right?

[brewing]

I had the following thought today and it is related to this thread.

Would a collectible society work? By this society, I mean a board of collectors that provide a stamp of approval on companies, individual cards (graded or natural)?

I think it could work if collectors buy into it.

[glchen]

BTW, does anyone know if SGC is affiliated with NGC, the coin grading company? Their icons look the same, and obviously the names of the companies are very similar. One thing I noticed today is that the NGC coin registry allows both NGC coins and PCGS coins in the registry (although it does look like the PCGS coins don't receive any registry points). Still, it's a nice way to have a checklist of all of your graded stuff in one place. Here's an example: Link

[sb1]

years ago, NGC, SGC and CGC were under the same umbrella, they have since been split up.

[john.clowes]

Another coin grading company, ANACS, charges $3 for scanned images.

[arexcrooke]

I wouldn't be so sure that a CAC type company wouldn't show up and try to get a foothold in cards.
A company called CVAC, led by a guy who used to work for Comiclink (they run sportcardlink) has tried to do the same with comics.
When the program was introduced on the CGC boards the level of mockery, disdain, and just junk talking was a sight to behold. It was one of the funnier threads I had ever been involved with over there.
I'm not sure how the card hobby would react but the comic side, at least on the CGC boards (and there are a lot of very high profile dealers and collectors there) the idea went over like a lead zeppelin.

[glchen]

BTW, it looks like NGC does a security scan for all graded coins for free: Link.

The weird thing about coins is that there is something called "dipping" in coins, which looks like it is basically putting the coin in something like an acid bath to remove the outer patina, and thus making the coin look "whiter." And this is somewhat accepted in coin collecting community, and the major TPG's like PCGS and NGC still grade these types of coins with a number grade, and do not give them the "CLEANED" qualifier that it does to other coins that are cleaned in a different way. (This is like an extreme form of soaking for cards, I guess, but most anyone in the card community would say that if you used chemicals to soak a card, that is card doctoring.) Anyway, supposedly CAC, which is a coin grading company founded by one of the original founders of NGC, who later left, will only put their sticker of approval on coins that have not been dipped.