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Message:: [QUOTE="Sundance79, post: 2865010, member: 84413"]I only buy PCGS slabbed coins. (When I buy a slabbed coin) With that said, I still buy the coin and not the slab. Case in point, a couple of weeks ago I was looking to buy a Walking Liberty half for my type set. Year wasn’t that important but I wanted a great example of a Walker. The key point I was looking at was the thumb and index fingers on the left hand. Well I looked at a lot of MS65, 66 and 67s at the show. I was shocked and just how poorly struck some of the MS66 and 67s were. There was no detail at all in the thumb and index fingers, and they looked like just a blob. I ended up buying what I thought was the best example of a Walking Liberty at the entire show. It was a 1940 MS65. The thumb and index fingers were clear as day. According to the grading standards, strike is to be taken into consideration at grades MS65 and higher. So a poorly struck coin shouldn’t grade higher. I know that some years are notorious for poorly struck coins, but that’s no excuse to give away higher grades for those years because of that. An MS67 coin should look the same across all years of a particular type. And an PCGS MS67 (or any grade for that matter) should look the same as an NGC MS67 coin. And in a perfect world and PCGS MS67, NGC MS67 and a fairly graded unslabbed MS67 should all be priced about the same. But as we all know, the world isn’t perfect.[/QUOTE]