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Message:: [QUOTE="Prime Mover, post: 1864060, member: 38783"]I'm not 100% "buy the coin at all costs" either, so I agree with you.  There's instances I buy the holder/label just because of it.  My point was mainly to identify his goals, whether resale or keeping in his collection, and that should be a bigger factor in where to go and whether it will really matter in the end. For example, I'm building Ike registry sets, and there seems to be a bias towards PCGS for being "harder" on the series, meaning you're less likely to achieve say an MS-66 on certain ones, and there's a large gap between MS-65 and MS-66 prices.  But, that price difference is much larger for PCGS coins than NGC coins of the "same" grade, because NGC seems to have a wider range of coins that will make MS-66, so their resale is accordingly lower.  This is where "buy the coin" comes into play... it is possible to find cheaper MS-66 NGC coins, successfully cross them over to PCGS at MS-66 there, and make out a decent profit even beyond the cost of re-grading.  But in that case it's all about "buy the coin".  Here I would be sticking with PCGS for the Ikes for that reason. Conversely I have some toned ASE's that I want to assemble into a registry set.  But I'm going to go the NGC route there because it's cheaper to get done through them, and I like the look of the contrast of the white holder to the toned coins.  Here, I'm more concerned about looks and filling the registry set at the lowest cost to me, than I am about reselling it for top dollar later (it is after all bullion at the core, but I don't want to kick off that holy-war right now... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  ).[/QUOTE]

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