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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2260404, member: 15929&quot;]Having a coin or coins &quot;certified&quot; and &quot;graded&quot; is often the result of a collector wanting validation of some type on his/her collection. Generally speaking, the numeric grade gets cross referenced with some assigned &quot;price guide&quot; value thereby giving the collector a sense of gratification with his/her purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, price guides and reality often are two completely different stories.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given that, my suggestion would be to go with PCGS since &quot;certain&quot; PCGS coins get much higher after market prices than any of the other grading services.</p><p><br /></p><p>This fact means nothing in the real world since fixed prices and auction prices are relative to who wants the coin (at that grade) and who actually see&#039;s the auction listing.</p><p><br /></p><p>For what&#039;s considered classic coinage, prices show little variance but with what&#039;s considered Modern coinage, prices vary widely with the bulk of high prices going toward PCGS Certified coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=75114]@mgmgmg75[/USER] you should seriously consider WHY you want to have a few of your coins certified. If their real world price is not one of the reasons, then go for the cheapest of the TPG&#039;s which would be ANACS.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF you are looking for a value boost, then go with PCGS and expect the worst.</p><p><br /></p><p>Professional Coin Grading is nothing more than a &quot;Marketing Tool&quot; created by and primarily support by Coin Dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dabbling in getting coins professionally graded can lead to a lot of &quot;other&quot; things such as selling and/or building a registry set and then getting competitive witht hat set. None of those two are going to be cheap exercises so, examine exactly WHY you want to get in on the frey and then go from there?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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