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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1342371, member: 112"]As I have said a hundred times, heck a thousand times, you cannot compare the two companies to each other. First of all they have different grading standards. NGC is tougher on grading series A, B, and C and PCGS is tougher on grading series E, F, and G. How can you compare that ? You can't. They also both have and have had completely different policies when it comes to grading. Until about 10 years ago NGC would not grade, at all, any coin minted after 1964. PCGS graded them from day one and always has. Until about 3 years ago PCGS would not assign the 70 grade to any coin, with a very, very, few exceptions. That was a company policy, period. They simply would not give the 70 grade, even to coins that deserved it. (they have since changed that policy) NGC on the other hand has always been willing to give the 70 grade to coins that deserved it. With every special designation there is, FBL, FT, FS, FB, etc etc, NGC has tougher standards. So there really is no way to say that this one is better than that one. All you can say is they are different.[/QUOTE]