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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 2311868, member: 73165&quot;]Let me get the first, obvious reply out of the way: you should buy the coin, not the slab.&nbsp; Learn to grade, and you&#039;ll find there are coins not worth their grade in all companies&#039; slabs, and some gems out there that are undergraded.&nbsp; All are worthy of purchase, at the right price.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, PCGS and NGC have better reputations in the market, so you&#039;re likely to get more out of them than IGC and ANACS coins.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t consider many other grading companies&#039; holders to be worth more than raw, except maybe old PCI green label holders.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>That</i> said, for key date coins, I would trust IGC and ANACS to authenticate them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think they make more mistakes than PCGS and NGC in that respect.&nbsp; For key dates, authenticity is the most important thing.&nbsp; It&#039;s much easier to grade a coin you have confidence is authentic than it is to authenticate and grade the same coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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