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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2552223, member: 80121&quot;]I tend to use NGC to grade coins, but prefer PCGS over NGC. Sound like a contradiction? As a member of the ANA I can submit coins to NGC without joining a &quot;club&quot;and pay &quot;dues&quot; a to submit coins to PCGS. PCGS tends to have a better rep with classical coins while NGC tends toward more modern coins (although they&#039;re trying for the ancient market with &quot;NGC Ancients), ANACS has a niche in the VAM and error area (and they are a heck of a lot cheaper) and come to smaller coin shows. I do like the fact that, especially in the Baseball Hall of Fame series, PCGS used living members and their actual signatures, while NGC opted for facsimile signatures of the more classical (and dead) members. Our local club is having a show Nov. 4-6 and ANACS is sending a Rep, PCGS and NGC declined.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, people move from working for NGC to PCGS and vice versa all the time. ICG and ANACS basically traded their companies completely - graders, owners, locations, etc., just switched one company for the another.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grey sheet rates the TPGS in this order (I&#039;m just going to list their average percentage): PCGS- 82.46%, NGC- 82.34%, ANACS- 65.98%, and ICG- 66.83%. In the end though, cost aside for the service, I still believe, <b>&quot;Buy the coin not the slab&quot;</b> holds for all of the big four companies, keeping in mind that PCGS holders tend to bring more money than NGC holders and companies selling graded coins tend to charge more for PCGS than NGC. Just MHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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