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Message:: [QUOTE="tbarreca, post: 751580, member: 21275"]As is often the case in this forum, I observe a lot of hyperbole, much of it negative, in this thread.  Does Accugrade suck?  Absolutely!  But do they suck statistically that much more than other Tier Z TPGs like PCI or NTC?  No, at least not in my experience. Over the last 6 or 7 years, I have purchased 2 coins on EBay in Accugrade plastic, a 1902-S Morgan graded EF-40 and and 1878 7/8 TF Morgan graded MS-64.  I left them slabbed, and intended from the original purchase (probably 2 or 3 years ago) to crack them out when the time came for re-sale, reflecting my agreement with the proposition that the Accugrade slab can be a negative in that context. But this thread prompted me to go back and look at them again, which I just did.  The 1902-S is correctly graded, whether the naysayers here would believe it or not. The 1878 is, on the other hand, significantly over-graded.  It's actually more like a 61, or at most a 62, if you're in a generous mood.  On the other hand, it's also a VAM-33a, which is an R-6 VAM. Given what I paid for both of these coins, they were great deals, irrespective of the plastic.  And for what it's worth, I have seen the 2 top-tier TPGs make mistakes that were as bad, if not worse, than any I have seen from Accugrade.  For example, EBay recently had a PCGS-slabbed Seated dime that they mis-attributed as 1866-P when it was in fact a 1866-S, as could have been conclusively demonstrated by a correct analysis of the date position. The bottom line is that you can only ultimately trust yourself on grading, counterfeit detection, correct variety attribution, etc., so suck it up and learn what you need to![/QUOTE]

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