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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 3612885, member: 105098&quot;]Here&#039;s my opinion. Buy the coin not the holder or whoever opinion is on the holder as to what the grade is.</p><p>PCGS, NGC, ANACS, IGC.</p><p>If I rate these 4 companies based on my personal opinions:</p><p>PCGS, has the harshest grading standards of all. Their coins might upgrade if cracked out and resubmitted to NGC if you do your homework.</p><p>NGC, has slightly lower standards but their coins might downgrade if resubmitted to PCGS.</p><p>ANACS, I personally believe they have the fairest grading, by the textbook definitions of each grade. However they are taken as sometimes over graded in the hobby compared to the way the big two grade coins, PCGS AND NGC.</p><p>Then ICG. Similar to ANACS maybe a bit looser on the definition of each grade. Likely will down grade of resubmitted to the other 3 companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think people like PCGS and NGC over the others because they are so strict on grading and coins will be top of the grade usually or undergraded so it feels safe to them, if they spend their money the coin isn&#039;t likely to downgrade, but upgrade instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion on this subject. And yes I think ANACS is the fairest grading, right on the grade in my opinion. I have no loyalty to any of these companies at all and get nothing endorsing any one over any other. Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>They all make their mistakes though so always buy the coin, not the slab. Take their grade on it as their unbiased opinion but make your own opinion before making a purchase. There&#039;s people cherry picking and making money off slabbed coins that might upgrade if cracked out so how accurate can they really be right?</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the example coin, the picture isn&#039;t the best for me to determine if it is FS101 die 1 for sure, but as far as variety attribution is concerned I don&#039;t think there&#039;s anyone better than ANACS at it either. going off these pictures on his listing though, what I can see, I&#039;m skeptical this is legit FS101. But it&#039;s blurry when you zoom in.. could be mislabeled by ANACS, could be he opened it and is a scam seller, could be someone else&#039;s fraud and he just doesn&#039;t know, could be images he got somewhere else that are wrong and the coin he&#039;s selling is good. It&#039;s ebay. Buyer beware. A FS101 for $10.00 yeah something wrong there. I tried their cert verification lookup but it doesn&#039;t seem to work. Guy has good feedback. Doesn&#039;t seem like he&#039;d scam. I dunno somethings fishy I guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I were in the market for it, I&#039;d ask for better pictures to confirm the variety to be sure. Other than that, yeah there&#039;s some shady people on ebay and grading companies make mistakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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