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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3213602, member: 71723"]If I get to pick the specific coins used, I could “prove” that PCGS is the worst, then NGC, then ICG, then ANACS, and NNC is the “bery bestest” of all. That doesn’t make it a representative sample. I see lots of slabs, but I own many fewer, and the number I look at closely is a number in between. I own an undergraded Franklin half in an NNC. Yep, that by itself makes it rare. I fervently believe that among “main sequence” coins, all four top firms are VERY similar. The differences emerge in how they treat a “golly that’s an unusual look” coin. These are things that get highly subjective. Every firm makes errors, every one of them. You can go to ANY major show and ask ANY dealer to show you an overgraded coin and an undergraded coin in their opinion, and 90%+ will be able to do exactly that, IN THEIR CASE. Some of these dealers are specialists in one series. It is the market as a whole that assigns a relative value to various slab brands by “voting with their money”. You don’t have to agree, but you don’t get to change the prevailing opinion either.[/QUOTE]