Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3138777, member: 46237"]I'll give you that, you can get better pictures in the PCGS slab compared to the NGC slab, however, you can get even better pictures of the coin raw. Ok so follow my logic here - I already know what the coin is, I can photograph it raw, I can self slab if I want it to be protected. So what's left? The attribution (if it matters) and grade, and PCGS does neither of those well for world coins. I just don't see the point of a PCGS slabbed world coin when they don't grade them correctly. I've had a grand total of 2 world PCGS coins that I thought were graded correctly and that also crossed the same. The rest of them have been 1-2 steps overgraded and a couple were problem coins that never would have gotten straight graded by NGC. For buying online that's a big problem for me because I don't want to pay for what I know is an inflated grade or problem coin just because it's slabbed. I could get slabbing raw world with PCGS if you're already a member there and they go along for the ride, and honestly, they actually do a really good job with world medals (better than NGC does, and you can quote me on that). I just don't get crossing a world coin to PCGS though. Might as well just crack it out.[/QUOTE]