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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7495946, member: 105098&quot;]If NGC or PCGS doesn&#039;t do it, they aren&#039;t going to do it at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>If they say they do it, then they will do it for a fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>So like with VAM Morgan dollars. If PCGS doesn&#039;t do that VAM, then they aren&#039;t doing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you were a VAM collector and wanted them all slabbed, I&#039;d say ANACS is your best choice ( I don&#039;t know how many ICG does to be fair, they might do a lot of them also) in order to have them all attributed and in uniform slabs across your collection instead of some PCGS, Some NGC and some ANACS to finish it out for the ones PCGS and NGC won&#039;t do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Resale values aside, PCGS and NGC just have things they aren&#039;t interested in doing and won&#039;t do and if your collection includes those items and you want them all in the same style slabs and labels&nbsp; then you pretty much have to go with who will or wind up with a mishmash of different slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS and NGC have their &quot;registry set&quot; collection things going on and that drives their markets for the most part, they can be selective on what they include and don&#039;t include because I think they are catering to that segment of collectors trying to build top sets in their slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion PCGS and NGC are focusing on their own registry set markets. ANACS is focusing on attributing things and don&#039;t give a hoot about registry set competition.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah PCGS slabs sell better, because the perception in the market is that&#039;s all they allow in their registry sets so it must be &quot;top of the line&quot; because registry builders want the best examples to get the top ranked sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s business models and it all really depends on how you collect. If I were collecting slabbed VAMs and I wanted it uniform in appearance I&#039;d be going to ANACS to get them ALL attributed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ive said it many times though and I&#039;ll say it again here. I don&#039;t own a single TPG graded coin and may never own one. I don&#039;t sell from my collection, and I don&#039;t need their validation or opinion on my coins. However a time may come where I want to buy a very specific coin like a key date that&#039;s known counterfeited and I might buy slabbed for peace of mind when shelling out the bucks, but other than that particular circumstance I see TPG grading as a waste of money for most everything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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