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Message:: [QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 2608875, member: 19165"]Yup. I never participated in the PCGS registry because of their exclusivity. It had an air of unwarranted snobbishness - an imagined superiority that smacked of marketing hype. The lie that PCGS coins are "worth more" is due solely to the fact that only PCGS coins were allowed in the PCGS registry - you had to pay to compete. In recent years, PCGS has actually been a bit looser in grading (and they've never even been close in foreign coins - why anyone would have PCGS grade foreign coins is a mystery). I always appreciated the fact that NGC was more focused on the coins and on the collector. The fact that they allowed both NGC and PCGS coins indicated their confidence in their product, and seemed to indicate they cared. Buy the coin, not the holder! That's always been my motto - and by participating in the NGC registry, I could do just that. I liked the Registry for its ability to display sets, show off nice coins, and share with my fellow collectors. I don't have the financial resources to compete at the top, and that was never the goal or purpose for me. It gave me a nice place to look at other collectors sets, and a nice place to share my sets. However, Mark Salzberg (the president of NGC) has inexplicably and suddenly mandated that only NGC coins are allowed in the registry as of 1/1/17, and all others are verboten. This is exactly what turned me off the PCGS registry! I feel betrayed by this foolhardy decision. Since NGC has turned their back on me, I feel beholden to now turn my back on them. So, I say screw the Registry. Buy the nice coins. Forget the holders. If the coin is nice, why on earth would you pay a high fee just to have it in different colored plastic?[/QUOTE]

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