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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2389793, member: 1892&quot;]Insider, the only problem with that is ICG is popularly regarded as near-third-world by the collecting community. You can&#039;t get a decent price from an ICG coin unless the buyer is good enough to completely ignore the slab and grade the coin, and buyers that good don&#039;t need an attribution on the slab. The accuracy of their attribution work - which I don&#039;t contend; they&#039;re very capable - isn&#039;t relevant because the downside of their rep is so significant. The same goes for SEGS. Aside their odd and offensive habit (hopefully they&#039;ve quit) of calling all D1 1921-P&#039;s &quot;Zerbe die&quot; coins, they&#039;re known to be quite capable with attribution details on Classic coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish it were otherwise, but it would only be &quot;otherwise&quot; if every potential buyer didn&#039;t really need the slab anyways. That won&#039;t be happening.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, the target audience for VAMs holds ANACS in higher regard than any other TPG from an attribution standpoint. I don&#039;t know if Randy Campbell is going to be one of the ones assigning new VAMs when Leroy chooses to retire, but we darn sure know John Roberts will be.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only prerequisite for being a &quot;qualified and capable&quot; attributor is <b>knowing how to attribute</b>. It&#039;s a skillset which transcends individual issues, and if you can reliably trust someone to attribute an Early Dollar, you ought to be able to trust them to attribute a Bust Half or a Morgan if sufficient information is available to them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe so; I make no claim of knowing one way or the other. I try to be as little involved with TPG&#039;s as possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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