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<p>[QUOTE="jallengomez, post: 1060265, member: 19748"]I decided to do a very unscientific experiment. Mind you the control group is far to small to yield any decent results, but here is what I just pulled. I'm currently searching 1958-D Lincolns so decided on that coin. I arbitrarily chose MS66 and pulled the first recent auction I came to on Heritage from PCGS, NGC, and ANACS. As one might expect, the highest price was the PCGS, second was NGC, and third was ANACS. You can judge from the photos yourself, but I would say the inverse of the pricing was the correct order. I chose not to bother with the time taken to post the reverses, as in each case the reverse was as good or better than the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS-(I honestly don't even keep coins with this many marks in my GEM slush pile)</p><p>[ATTACH]104647.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC-</p><p>[ATTACH]104648.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS-(Granted that from the photo it doesn't seem to have the luster of the other two, but compare the marks)</p><p>[ATTACH]104649.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jallengomez, post: 1060265, member: 19748"]I decided to do a very unscientific experiment. Mind you the control group is far to small to yield any decent results, but here is what I just pulled. I'm currently searching 1958-D Lincolns so decided on that coin. I arbitrarily chose MS66 and pulled the first recent auction I came to on Heritage from PCGS, NGC, and ANACS. As one might expect, the highest price was the PCGS, second was NGC, and third was ANACS. You can judge from the photos yourself, but I would say the inverse of the pricing was the correct order. I chose not to bother with the time taken to post the reverses, as in each case the reverse was as good or better than the obverse. PCGS-(I honestly don't even keep coins with this many marks in my GEM slush pile) [ATTACH]104647.vB[/ATTACH] NGC- [ATTACH]104648.vB[/ATTACH] ANACS-(Granted that from the photo it doesn't seem to have the luster of the other two, but compare the marks) [ATTACH]104649.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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