@PWA 1967 i think Swanny has good grounds to be pissed off. His Gothic has been scratched, he claims it was done by CGS, now if this is correct, it has probably wiped £500 or more off the value of the coin. If the shoe was on the other foot and one of yours was damaged by ANY grading company without compensation i'm sure you'd be rightly annoyed, especially if you'd paid £2500 or more for it.
A company that sells and grades coins should have done the right thing and compensated for the loss, or even bought the coin from him at market value, but they decide that shutting the grading side of it down and now won't receive a penny......
Of course this post should be elsewhere, but i'm replying to something said here and it wouldn't make sense in the CGS bashing thread. I'm not interested in arguing about CGS or anything else, but try and take the view from someone who's valuable coin was scratched (i won't say ruined) but it will have decreased it's value...