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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2035849, member: 15929&quot;]Well lets put it this way............</p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose, in a year or two, its found out that someone at one of the Top TPG&#039;s has been fixing grades. Playing favorites. Selling coins that they themselves have graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you suppose that folks who are heavily invested in the offending TPG are going to get good value for their slabbing investment?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if I had two 1978 MS65 Eisenhower Dollars which were undisputably solid for the grade and I put them both up for sale on an auction site, which coin would sell for more?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you said PCGS then, Yayyy! You win!!</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, its not the fact that the PCGS coin was graded more strictly because, remember, both coins were undisputably MS65&#039;s and accurately graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, are the bidders buying the coins or are they buying the plastic?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you said &quot;Plastic&quot; then Yayyyy! You win again!</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, if you are &quot;collecting&quot;, then you need to rely upon &quot;your&quot; opinion, not someone elses. If you like the coin which resides in ANACS plastic, then that&#039;s fine.</p><p>If you like the coin in PCGS plastic, that&#039;s fine as well.</p><p>Likewise for NGC, ICG, SEGS and (dare I say it) SGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are going to collect &quot;coins&quot; then collect coins.</p><p>If you are going to brag about the actual market value of your collection, then collect plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, Louis Eliasberg did not own a single slabbed coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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