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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1930502, member: 4626&quot;]It is, yes.&nbsp; Since they moved to Colorado they are considered by many to have higher and more consistent standards than the blue/clear slab era.&nbsp; Their previous reputation is hard to shed, and they are still considered a &quot;lesser&quot; grader than PCGS/NGC by many, but their reputation is improving slowly but surely.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those that are good enough at grading coins themselves that they can live by &quot;buy the coin, not the slab&quot;, ANACS graded coins can save you a lot of money over PCGS (and even NGC for that matter).&nbsp; I don&#039;t expect this to always be the case, but it is now, and probably will remain so for quite some time.&nbsp; If you need coins graded/slabbed, they&#039;re also the cheapest reasonably reputable TPG, and the only major one that does not require any kind of membership.&nbsp; So there&#039;s that.&nbsp; I&#039;ve long held that ANACS&#039; current reputation is more about perception than reality; many dealers I&#039;ve met say they grade just about as well as the big two <i>now</i>, but their perceived reputation is lesser than that of the other two still.&nbsp; Sellers may not want to have their coins slabbed by them because of that, but for <i>buyers</i> it&#039;s a great opportunity to get good coins for less money than if PCGS or NGC slabbed them.&nbsp; As someone who buys far more coins than I ever sell lol... for me that&#039;s a very good thing.&nbsp; Just because others want to buy PCGS-slabbed coins because of their reputation, doesn&#039;t mean I have to agree that it&#039;s a smart thing to do (I don&#039;t care how a coin is graded; I can judge for myself whether a coin is worth what the seller is asking, and don&#039;t need a hunk of plastic to tell me that!&nbsp; I&#039;m not paying anything extra for PCGS&#039;s reputation, thank you.).</p><p><br /></p><p>I would assert that if you can&#039;t tell for yourself whether a coin is worth what a seller is asking, you shouldn&#039;t be buying coins in the first place.&nbsp; You should rely on your own judgement, not that of a TPG, and if you can&#039;t, don&#039;t put your money on the line in the first place.&nbsp; Paying extra just because of what company put their name on a piece of plastic is a complete waste IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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