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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 20678, member: 824&quot;]Great thread...</p><p><br /></p><p>I, too, have always wondered with all of the votes for PCGS or NGC as being the top two graders (as suggested many times throughout these forums) why the discrepancy in prices??</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is, or it appears, that PCGS still commands higher prices for the same coin, with the same grade.&nbsp; Sure luster and appearance play a role...but at these figures??&nbsp; There is a huge market for buying and selling sight-unseen and that is where grading services have played a role in giving confidence to buyers when it comes to purchasing these coins &quot;slabbed&quot; versus a &quot;raw&quot; state.&nbsp; In some cases, bogus grading services like SGS and others have hurt the perception of grading services altogether....but that has been discussed previously as well</p><p><br /></p><p>Stll, PCGS prices are still substantially higher than NGC and others...or is the bottom primed to fall out??&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have picked up coins graded by ICG and ANACS at almost half of what PCGS was getting for the same coin in the same grade.&nbsp; They looked nice, I agreed with the grade (most of the time), and I saved a bunch.&nbsp; I don&#039;t plan on selling them, but if I did, I would consider cross-overing them to PCGS because even after the cross-over costs, I wold probably make out more substantially selling a PCGS slab over the ones I picked them up in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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