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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2697865, member: 69760&quot;]I use NGC. You can submit to NGC directly via ANA membership, or if you&#039;re submitting 7+ coins, it&#039;s actually cheaper to purchase the NGC Premium membership for $149 since you receive $150 in credit. There&#039;s also no minimum coin requirement anymore for economy tier, but you may still want to submit at least several coins per form due to shipping costs. Another benefit to using NGC (and PCGS for most US coins) is that there&#039;s definitely a noticeable premium paid by buyers for coins slabbed by these TPGs. So, if your tastes change or if you ever want to upgrade your newly slabbed coins, then you have a better chance of at least breaking even.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the more I look at ANACS grades, the more they appear accurately graded or at least comparable to many NGC / PCGS grades, with some discrepancies. Plus, much better pricing to boot.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, I buy raw the vast majority of the time, so slabbed isn&#039;t really a desired option for me unless the price is comparable to raw (mostly applies to slabbed moderns). So, you can say that I&#039;m a <i>huge</i> believer of buying the coin and not the holder, literally. Case-in-point, you may get a semi-PL coin given the exact same grade as a <i>typical</i> business strike coin; but obviously, they&#039;re not the same aesthetically at all. Add toning and it&#039;s apples and oranges (in most cases, I&#039;ve noticed that TPGs <i>don&#039;t</i> give star grades for colorful and &quot;pretty&quot; toning).</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, the entire philosophy of PCGS grading is for collectors/buyers/dealers to make transactions <b><i>sight unseen</i></b>. But, there&#039;s an inherent flaw with the current grading system when it comes to eye appeal and the aforementioned aesthetic qualities, which makes sight unseen purchases not always a great idea. Besides poor grading assignments, that is probably a large part of the reason why the saying, &quot;Buy the coin and not the holder&quot; exists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my 2 cents...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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