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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rbm86, post: 8574, member: 854&quot;]Well the certified coin market indicators from the Coin Dealer Newsletter put ICG right up there with NGC and PCGS (82% for PCGS, 81% for NGC, and 86% for ICG).&nbsp; ANACS trails badly at 57%, although the market still seems to consider them a top tier grading service.&nbsp; To me, this puts ICG right up there, thier grading seems on par with the &quot;Big 2&quot;, and they appear to hold their value.&nbsp; Also, being sold by Heritage is a sign of &quot;top tier&quot; acceptance as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks to me like its shaking out to be, in terms of market acceptance, the Big 3 (NGC, PCGS, ICG) in the top tier, ANACS in a second tier, and the rest being a very low tier.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would rather buy raw coins than any coin slabbed by a lower tier service.&nbsp; The lower tier slabs seem to always be overgraded (relative to ANA grading standards) and inconsistently graded.&nbsp; The question becomes overgraded by how much.&nbsp; If you buy one of these, you basically have to ignore the slab and grade it yourself, so you might as well consider it a raw coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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