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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2151056, member: 59677&quot;]I own several NTC and PCI coins, but I collect historical slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been several iterations of PCI, the oldest one (small slabs with green labels with two codes below the bar code on the reverse) are frequently pretty fairly graded - by TODAY&#039;S standards. PCI&#039;s grading standards went down hill from there. Of course, most of the good material has been picked over and a lot cracked out and submitted to more reputable TPGs. So you can&#039;t automatically assume a PCI green label MS62 will cross to a PCGS or NGC MS62...</p><p><br /></p><p>NTC, well, I look at the grade and think of it as &quot;there probably is an MS65 of this one, somewhere, but Not This Coin&quot;. Still, even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut.</p><p><br /></p><p>The correct rule is buy the coin not the slab - however as a <i>general </i>rule, the only reason PCI or NTC coins sell a prices similar to the top tier TPGs is because the buyer is less sophisticated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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