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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 518678, member: 4552&quot;]Natural question. And unfortunately true that no two places are the same. I&#039;ve known many people that take a NGC slab, break it open, send to someone like ANACS to get a better grade. HOWEVER, contrary to that I&#039;ve known others that have told me just the oposite. Possibly why PCGS has such a great reputation. They are fairly well known to be more precise but harder on grades. You can usually tell a typical TPGS abilities by going to a coin show and noting the difference in prices for similar coins from different TPGS&#039;s. Of course that too is of no real proof since all dealers value things a little differently. </p><p>I read somewhere there were 107 well established TPGS&#039;s in existance. This was a few years ago and that number may well have gone up or down. I was recently told one of them is a guy in his basement doing it because he can. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; My opinion is to just grade your own coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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