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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vegas Vic, post: 2027829, member: 58810&quot;]I love the idea of arguing a point with a vague non referenced piece of evidence. It would almost be fun to see how style of arguing that would go over at my place of work.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I have said before ngc and pcgs define us coin collecting. Maybe not at the circulated 1945 10c level but certainly at the mid to high range price brackets. Some people like this. Some don&#039;t. But the evidence is right there. Open any major auction catalog over the last 5 years (or probably more like 10-15 years) and you will see the vast majority of us coins are slabbed pcgs or ngc. I have never gone to any coin show where most coins were raw. In case after case all I see for us coins is pcgs and ngc. Sure someone has a huge book of coins on their table raw but I haven&#039;t seen the guy have the book filled with hundreds of $100+ coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the us market is owned by pcgs and ngc the most valuable skill would be the ability to grade according to their standards. I don&#039;t really care if you prefer a slide rule over a calculator if the industry standard is the calculator. The standard is the standard whether you agree or disagree.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>People slam eBay left and right but I&#039;ve found it to be a great place to buy coins. For years I bought coins on eBay and sold them at vegas shows. Now I just buy because there have been some coins I seriously regret selling. Sure it is more like miss, miss, miss and hit rather then hit and miss but really is a coin show different? There are tons of overpriced coins both on eBay and at shows. But with eBay you can look over thousands of coins in a short amount of time. I&#039;ve never been to a show with over 2800 pcgs and ngc Indian head cents but they are on eBay right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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