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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 1974969, member: 71723&quot;]I admit that I prefer NGC for some pretty sketchy reasons. The ANA status is one and I am an ANA fanatic. I have NEVER been to a Central States. I am in PA, but I&#039;ve NEVER been to a PAN, except for the one that was an ANA fall show in 2011 in dahntahn Pittsburgh. I&#039;ve been to exactly one FUN, January 2013 (12?). I&#039;ve never been to Long Beach. But I have been to 11 WFM&#039;s and NMS&#039;s. I just love the crap out of the ANA! Oh, I&#039;ve been to 2 NYINC&#039;s, many years apart, and a handful of Whitman&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I caught ANA Fanboy&#039;s Disease from John and Nancy Wilson, the carriers of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other reason I like NGC is the slabs themselves. They feel solid and substantial and secure. They (the firm, not the slabs) also seem far more welcoming to collector submissions. I don&#039;t do much with dealers as 95%+ of my raw coins come from the auction channel, local mostly. And as I wrote up thread, except for some aging eyes, I might be a grading Idiot Savant of some kind. Or half of an Idiot Savant at least, right? I read like a fiend and try to keep up to date on industry taste trends. I like some, and think others are stupid, but I realize it&#039;s hard to stand alone athwart a trend. I also once nearly died, and I have the distinct sensation of living in &quot;extra innings&quot;. I am an annoying <span style="color: #ff0000">Edit ~ please read rules about abbrev. /language </span>at times, and that&#039;s because I already died once, metaphorically. No one can hurt me any more, so I put up with less garbage than I used to.</p><p><br /></p><p>If life ever would get too unbearable, all I have to do is stop taking my BP meds, and I&#039;ll stroke out in about a week, and everybody can kiss my rump. Immortality and hyper mortality are both liberating things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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