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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1269135, member: 29751"]Your comment is true for ASE and AGE. You obviously don't collect ANY modern coins or know anything about the market outside of bullion. </p><p><br /></p><p>I won't regurgitate it all here (again, for the 2nd or 3rd time). BUT, there are almost NO Business strike modern coins graded MS69, and literally a handful graded MS70. ALL of the MS70 graded coins are Satin Finish coins from 2005-2010. The Business Strike moderns in MS69 are most commonly the Lincoln Cent or the Roosevelt Dime, and rarely any other coin. It drives me crazy the misconception that every modern coin is available by the millions in MS69 and MS70 condition. IT simply is not true.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for grading by NGC versus PCGS, I have many many from both companies. Sometimes they get it right, and sometimes they get it wrong. Both companies have their days. Again, as I have said many time before -- the driving force behind why the PCGS coins demand a premium in the market is primarily due to the fact that the PCGS Registry Set does not allow NGC graded coins. Thus, PCGS self-promotes their coins for anyone interested in building a Registry Set. On the flip side, NGC customer service is almost assuredly better than PCGS -- though both services have massive back logs and bottlenecks for grading right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1269135, member: 29751"]Your comment is true for ASE and AGE. You obviously don't collect ANY modern coins or know anything about the market outside of bullion. I won't regurgitate it all here (again, for the 2nd or 3rd time). BUT, there are almost NO Business strike modern coins graded MS69, and literally a handful graded MS70. ALL of the MS70 graded coins are Satin Finish coins from 2005-2010. The Business Strike moderns in MS69 are most commonly the Lincoln Cent or the Roosevelt Dime, and rarely any other coin. It drives me crazy the misconception that every modern coin is available by the millions in MS69 and MS70 condition. IT simply is not true. As for grading by NGC versus PCGS, I have many many from both companies. Sometimes they get it right, and sometimes they get it wrong. Both companies have their days. Again, as I have said many time before -- the driving force behind why the PCGS coins demand a premium in the market is primarily due to the fact that the PCGS Registry Set does not allow NGC graded coins. Thus, PCGS self-promotes their coins for anyone interested in building a Registry Set. On the flip side, NGC customer service is almost assuredly better than PCGS -- though both services have massive back logs and bottlenecks for grading right now.[/QUOTE]
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