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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 130456, member: 2761"]ICG does a heck of a job with circulated coins and those MS grades below 68.  Their slab with the Intercept Shield protection is 2nd to NONE.  They have assembled some of the best graders in the world and the fact that NONE of their employees are allowed to own and trade coins is very attractive.  This makes them a true independent TPG in my book. I would also submit coins to PCGS over NGC as PCGS is more respected by the entire coin community over NGC.  (Watch the NGC defenders go crazy now).  Because of this resepect by the numismatic community, PCGS slabbed coins carry a premium over NGC and the others.  So...eventually you may have to liquidate your collection, so why not realize the highest prices?  This is well documented in prices realized by the major auction houses like eBay, Teletrade, Heritage, and others!  Look up what a PCGS coin sells for over NGC and you can see yourself.  One of the reasons for this gap is that NGC has been more "liberal" on their grading than PCGS.  For instance, if you look at the number of 70 grades NGC hands out compared to PCGS, NGC hands out about 10 to 15 times MORE 70 grades than PCGS!  The market has seen this and responded.  Again, watch the NGC defenders go crazy.   Look, NGC is a decent TPG, but all things being equal...if I have to submit, I am going to submit to the service that is most respected in the marketplace.  You will hear that this "price gap" is closing and I will say, "Oh really!?!".  Again, do some on line research yourself and LOOK at the numbers and YOU be the judge, otherwise you will just get a bunch of opinions and you know the saying: "Opnions are are like ---holes, everybody has one."[/QUOTE]

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