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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ozland tiger, post: 238455, member: 3168&quot;]Third party graders in general serve a singular purpose and that is to attribute a coin for authenticity.</p><p>Most observers rank the third party graders as follows: (1) PCGS (2) NGC (3) ANACS (4) ICG. (5) Pretty much everyone else.</p><p>In terms of who has better attribution, this has always been subjective, but the market has spoken as follows: (1) PCGS coins retain their value (in general) higher than every one else. (2) NGC is considered as reliable. However, the prices for their coins have not retained the same level of price consisitency. (3) ANACS is reliable, however, their slabs and NGC slabs do not axiomatically cross over to PCGS&nbsp; and some times vice versa (4) ICG is considered the number 4 in the industry, righty or wrongly.</p><p>Each have their own particular grading standards. </p><p>As for the merits of those standards and how they are applied it is for other people to comment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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