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Message:: [QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3933138, member: 46237"]Lots of assumptions I see. My last submission at Whitman was 154 world coins to NGC and 5 world medals to PCGS. That's fairly typical volume for what I submit at each show. You will notice I submit my world medals to PCGS. Their world medals service is superior to NGC both in terms of attribution and grading, and their oversize medals holder is superior to NGC's. Most of my world medals are raw, but for the occasional exceptional piece, or silver/gold medal, I would only trust them to PCGS. As for coins, the vast majority of world coins I buy are raw. I would guess about 85%. Having said that, most world PCGS coins I buy I actually do crack out and submit raw if they are worth under $200 or so, and I am well aware of the PCGS grade, the grade I think the coin is, and the grade it ends up holdered at with NGC. I have observed over the years that NGC is more conservative than PCGS for these coins. Or rather, in my opinion, it is NGC that is grading correctly and PCGS that is grading loosely. Aside from the coins I submit that were PCGS crackouts or crossovers, I am also very familiar with NGC grading and can tell with a fair degree of accuracy when looking at a PCGS coin how it will grade at NGC. The PCGS world coins I cross instead of cracking out are the ones that are high value coins where I want to keep them in a holder regardless (and sometimes attempt to cross more than once if it makes a difference). For example, the 1907 MS63 corona that just crossed at the same grade is a $600 coin. I've crossed a few dozen of these types of coins over the years. Most people with higher value world coins are either purists who keep them raw, or they already know to slab them with NGC, so it's only the occasional coin that I pick up in this value range that is in a PCGS holder.[/QUOTE]

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