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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 107683, member: 112"]Simple, because they are a top grading company. It's no secret that PCGS coins sell for more on the open market. That is due to public perception and belief. It doesn't mean their coins are graded any more conservatively. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to choose which TPG was the most conservative in general - it would be ANACS. Go find me even 1 coin graded as MS or PF70 in an ANACS slab - you won't be able to do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for every coin you can find that you think NGC has overgraded - I'll show you 3 of them that PCGS has overgraded. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not trying to defend NGC here, there's no need to as the coins speak for themselves. But I will say this, it is my belief and opinion that NGC is far and away the single most consistent grading company of them all. Sure they make mistakes - overgrade, undergrade even no grade. But all of the grading companies do. It's just been my experience that NGC makes less of them than any of the others. I'm far from being alone in that opinion. I'm no expert, far from it. But there are a great many people who are experts who have the same opinion of NGC that I do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 107683, member: 112"]Simple, because they are a top grading company. It's no secret that PCGS coins sell for more on the open market. That is due to public perception and belief. It doesn't mean their coins are graded any more conservatively. If I had to choose which TPG was the most conservative in general - it would be ANACS. Go find me even 1 coin graded as MS or PF70 in an ANACS slab - you won't be able to do it. And for every coin you can find that you think NGC has overgraded - I'll show you 3 of them that PCGS has overgraded. I'm not trying to defend NGC here, there's no need to as the coins speak for themselves. But I will say this, it is my belief and opinion that NGC is far and away the single most consistent grading company of them all. Sure they make mistakes - overgrade, undergrade even no grade. But all of the grading companies do. It's just been my experience that NGC makes less of them than any of the others. I'm far from being alone in that opinion. I'm no expert, far from it. But there are a great many people who are experts who have the same opinion of NGC that I do.[/QUOTE]
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