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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 67120, member: 2761"]Let's examine the population reports from both PCGS and NGC for the issue at hand...Proof American Silver Eagles.  For the purpose of my argument, lets examine 5 years beginning with 1996.  After all, most of these coins have been distributed and those that were slabbed by PCGS or NGC have already been completed.  In other words, I doubt anybody with a hoard of SAE's from these dates plans on submitting them to PCGS or NGC for grading, thereby scewing the population reports. I have PCGS population reports (c/o of their web site) and you can pull both NGC and PCGS reports together through Heritage's website, so with a little math, we can figure out NGC population reports for the ultimate 70 grade for these SAE's: Date * Total PCGS and NGC * PCGS only * NGC only  -- PR70's 1996-P  212  38  1741997-P  205  33  1721998-P  554  65  4891999-P  285  20  2652000-P  1614  31  1616 <img src="http://bestsmileys.com/wow/4.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> (sorry,  it has hard to make a chart) Look it up...there are more NGC PR70 Ultra Cam Silver Eagles than PCGS PR70 DCAM's in this sample of 5 straight years. As stated, I find much more 70 grades for proofs being thrown around by NGC than PCGS...hence another reason why PCGS graded coins realize more and should be chosen if you had a choice among the two...all things being equal.[/QUOTE]