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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Old Sarge, post: 407883, member: 15348&quot;]Gentlemen;</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me add my two cents worth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>BUY THE COIN NOT THE PLASTIC!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Accugrade:&nbsp; Alan is a personal friend of mine and I like him as a person.&nbsp; He has an extensive knowledge of coins and has written extensively on grading silver dollars (4 volume series covering Morgan, Peace and Ike dollars).&nbsp; That is on the plus side.&nbsp; On the minus side, he is blunt, opinionated and grates on you like a corncob used for toilet paper.&nbsp; (Sorry Alan, that is fact).&nbsp; Alan is a salesman and he is good at it.&nbsp; I have purchased a few hundred of his slabs at discounted prices simply because the other person wanted to get rid of them.&nbsp; Most were resubmitted to another service and crossed over in the same grade.&nbsp; Granted, I did select carefully just as I do with all the other services.</p><p><br /></p><p>SEGS:&nbsp; I chose SEGS as the grading service I use simply because Larry is very knowledgable about varities and errors plus the fact that I believe his slab is presently the safest on the market.&nbsp; Larry tends to practice technical grading, not consensus grading.&nbsp; Consensus or market grading should have no bearing on the actual grade of a coin.&nbsp; It will, however, have a distinct bearing on the price.&nbsp; A beautiful coin brings more money than one with problems - spots, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS and NGC:&nbsp; I accept that a coin graded by either of these services should not vary more than a point (grading is an art, not a science).but the question of the difference in grading that infamous 1974 aluminum cent which NGC gave a AU58 and PCGS gave a MS62. If tit had been the other way I would understand it better.&nbsp; How can a coin go from used to new? PCGS has been remarkedly close mouthed about that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rule 2:&nbsp; Never buy a coin that you don&#039;t like regardless of the price.&nbsp; You will never like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rule 3:&nbsp; There are only two actual grades for a coin.&nbsp; One is new.&nbsp; The other is used.&nbsp; The rumoured reason that we actually have 70 different grades is to make us (the dealers) feel superior to used car dealers.&nbsp; The price of a coin is arrived at after negotiation between seller and buyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul Garner</p><p>The Old Sarge[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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