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Message:: [QUOTE="blsmothermon, post: 991310, member: 26158"]PCS appears to be MBI's retail arm. Looking at MBI's products they are familiar to most of us. That is if you watch QVC, HSN, late-night infomercials, etc. In fact, I have a couple of their 24k Gold-plated stamps. They were free promos from the company years ago. My problem with comparing them to coin companies is, as mkwelbornjr says, it isn't about the coins it is the presentation. They are selling a folder, matte, nice printing, coin, etc as a package. Therefore, their business is not about coin collecting per se. It is a novelty company. They want you to collect their product, regardless of the coin itself. Littleton does sell some novelties too (colorized, stickered, and plated coins), but they also sell some decently priced collector coins. Most of their collector coins are overpriced and I would compare them to other coin dealers because they do sell product for coin collectors specifically. PCS, however, has nothing of interest to collectors, just people who have the money, and want something old, fancy, and overpriced to show to their friends. Just my POV.[/QUOTE]