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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 24793235, member: 112"]I believe the answer depends on what your goal is. Or put another way, what are you trying to do, what do you hope to accomplish by having the coins graded ? I say that because different owners have many different reasons for having coins graded. </p><p><br /></p><p>1 - Some choose one company over the other because they like the way the slab looks, and or the way the coin looks in the slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>2 - Others may decide on what they perceive to be value considerations. </p><p><br /></p><p>3 - Others may decide on what they think turn around time will be. </p><p><br /></p><p>4 - And yet others may decide because one company is tougher, more conservative, with grading a particular type and or series than the other company is. So they may want what they perceive to be the more accurate grade, while others simply want the highest grade they can get. </p><p><br /></p><p>5 - And then there's the Registry game, and many will choose for that reason alone. </p><p><br /></p><p>6 - And sometimes one company will only attribute certain varieties and or errors and not others, while the the other company will attribute them. </p><p><br /></p><p>7 - And perhaps, and I say perhaps because I've probably forgotten a few, the last consideration is cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to give a specific answer as to what type and or series, I believe one must first decide what your goal is. And because there are so many variables, thus making the answer very long and quite complicated to cover them all, perhaps it would be better to ask which specific types and or series you really want to know about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 24793235, member: 112"]I believe the answer depends on what your goal is. Or put another way, what are you trying to do, what do you hope to accomplish by having the coins graded ? I say that because different owners have many different reasons for having coins graded. 1 - Some choose one company over the other because they like the way the slab looks, and or the way the coin looks in the slab. 2 - Others may decide on what they perceive to be value considerations. 3 - Others may decide on what they think turn around time will be. 4 - And yet others may decide because one company is tougher, more conservative, with grading a particular type and or series than the other company is. So they may want what they perceive to be the more accurate grade, while others simply want the highest grade they can get. 5 - And then there's the Registry game, and many will choose for that reason alone. 6 - And sometimes one company will only attribute certain varieties and or errors and not others, while the the other company will attribute them. 7 - And perhaps, and I say perhaps because I've probably forgotten a few, the last consideration is cost. So to give a specific answer as to what type and or series, I believe one must first decide what your goal is. And because there are so many variables, thus making the answer very long and quite complicated to cover them all, perhaps it would be better to ask which specific types and or series you really want to know about.[/QUOTE]
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