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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1580098, member: 4626&quot;]One thing you have to remember is that TPGs provide a service, not a product.&nbsp; The value that a slab adds to a coin is theoretically 0.&nbsp; Having said that, the perception is PCGS&gt;NGC&gt;ANACS&gt;&gt;&gt;ICG.&nbsp; I will concede having a coin slabbed can make it easier to sell, possibly even sell for more, but it&#039;s almost never going to get you more money for your coin than it cost to have it slabbed, unless your coin is graded at such a high condition that it&#039;s rare in that condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a more concrete note, ANACS is the cheapest of the &quot;big 3&quot; and that&#039;s a fact, rather than an opinion.&nbsp; They also attribute some VAMs and other varieties that PCGS/NGC won&#039;t.&nbsp; PCGS may be the most respected, but they&#039;re far more expensive because of that and require an expensive membership before you can submit coin #1 to them, which then also charge you for (alternatively you can find a PCGS member to submit it for you to avoid the membership fee, but a portion of that fee is going to get passed onto you one way or another).&nbsp; NGC is cheaper than PCGS but more expensive than ANACS, and requires an ANA membership to submit coins (not worth it unless you&#039;re already a member anyway).&nbsp; ICG should be counted lucky they ever get mentioned in a conversation like this... er, can&#039;t recommend them in any case.</p><p><br /></p><p>In summary, where&#039;s the value point?&nbsp; Er, unless your coin is rare in the condition that it grades in (or if it&#039;s a commonly faked coin that people will not likely buy without assurance it&#039;s authentic, such as a trade dollar), getting it slabbed will be a net loss to you.&nbsp; If it&#039;s not a high value coin either don&#039;t get it slabbed at all or get it slabbed by the cheapest reasonably respected TPG.&nbsp; If paying x dollars to get your coin slabbed will not raise the sales price of your coin by x dollars or more, and it almost never will, then it&#039;s not worth it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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