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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2175277, member: 15929&quot;]Right.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you actually &quot;believe: this stuff, then you&#039;ve been drinking w-a-a-y too much koolaide!</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS, in it&#039;s bottomless source of practical wisdom, has included the 1964-D Peace Dollar as the number 1 coin in its &quot;Top 100 Modern Coins&quot; registry set. A virtually impossible coin to obtain!</p><p><br /></p><p>Coming in at Number 3: 1974 Aluminum Lincoln Cent! Virtually impossible to buy on the open market. I expect that come next year, they&#039;ll throw the 1974-D Aluminum Cent into the mix.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin Number 4: A one of a kind 1976 No S Type 2 Proof Eisenhower Dollar in 40% Silver no less. An impossible find and likely not to go on successful sale anytime soon since it&#039;s currently way overpriced. But since the coin belongs to one of the PCGS Board of Experts, I expect that when it does go on sale, it&#039;ll fetch a pretty penny. Why? Because PCGS Says so! That&#039;s why! And lets not forget that the coin originally sold for about 70 Grand yet today, with no sales to base a price on, it sits with a $450,000 valuation in the Price Guide (formulated by the subject PCGS &quot;expert&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>Coming in at the number 5 spot: 2000-W 22kt Gold Sacagawea Proof Dollar! Another virtually impossible coin to obtain! All examples are locked in the vaults at Ft. Knox! Someday they might be released but I wouldn&#039;t count on it. Sure, the Treasury has the authorization to produce any gold coin they wish, which is how these came into existence, but the Treasury Department also got its hands slapped for producing these rarities.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what we have is a &quot;Fantasy&quot; Top 100 Modern Coins Registry set which totally smacks of favoritism since it leaves out some key coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if you want to elevate PCGS to the position of GOD in the third party grading environment, you&#039;re certainly welcome to do so but this fellow ain&#039;t about to step up to that koolaide drum.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Expertise&quot; in coins comes from buying and selling. Not reporting auction prices and writing stories design to &quot;entice&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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