Preferred Grading Company

And people pay for silver coins by the silver value?

 

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I don't really see the difference. Silver is only valuable because we decided it is. It doesn't have any real value when you consider its usefulness. You can't eat it, you can't drink it, it doesn't cure disease, you can't shoot it at someone. It's really pretty valueless except that we all agree it has value.

A conditionally rare clad Ike is much the same thing...except far fewer people value it. But, those that do value it far more than a silver example.

 

19 coins and $337 - it is not a cheap propoisition either way. The wait times for NCG and PCGS is insane right now.

 

If I'm in a real hurry I use the "FAST TRAIN GRADING SEVICE"
I do like their new "BLACK & WHITE HOLDERS" it's a first and the way the label is oriented on the obverse so you can read it.
I understand the grade them while listing to Solomon Burke sing "Fast Train"
PS He's a Philly guy.

 

They charge $12 to do research for varieties. Now that is pretty cheap. How long does it take to research something like that? If I did it, it would take an hour or two to look it up and compare. That is straight manppower hours and expertise.

 

If we were paying just for the silver content of all our coins, the market would be tanking.

 

https://www.coinworld.com/news/prec...finds-rare-dime-variety-in-ebay-bulk-lot.html

 

Good looking holder…but it would look even better with the SP4449 on it.

 

Cheech9712, I just noticed your question. I do collect and research Canadian large cent coins I have all the dates and most varieties from 1858 - 1920 70% MS. I'm working on 100% completion in MS Red or RB preferably MS-64 MS-65 this should take me some time and cash hopefully I'll see it before I pass on.

 

Is he related to Fast Eddie?

 

Prior to sending them for grading you might want to test the market on what is available at what cost. There are alot of Ikes in high grades that sell for less or comparable to the cost to grade. The 73, although they are desirable don't really command a great price unless you are getting a 69 or 70 grade. Just sayin.

 

Can anyone answer why are ANACS grades given lower resale value? They have been around 13 years longer than PCGS, and 15 years longer than NGC. What did they do or not do to deserve this 2nd class status?

 

What did they do to deserve 2nd class status? Nada. If I weren't working on PCGS and NGC Registry Sets, I would strongly consider ANACS for inexpensive coins I wanted graded. I've also used NGC for all of my hammered British coins, and I used ANACS for my foreign gold pieces. I have no ICG coins. A dealer once told me that dealers think that ICG stands for "I Can't Grade."

 

Endorsed.

 

Don’t let @Insider here you say that.

 

Those who won't look at ICG graded coins more the merrier. That means more nice coins for me!

 

Mike Thorne, posted: "A dealer once told me that dealers think that ICG stands for "I Can't Grade."

That's something no one has ever heard before - NOT.

If this member is the published numismatist, Mike Thorne, he appears to be seriously uninformed and living in the past concerning the subject of TPGS's but I will give him credit for at least knowing that ICG actually exists.

Mike, I don't know how many coin dealers you have dealt with face-to-face in your long career but if you have 1/10 of the experience I have dealing with their coins and their level of expertise, you would have realized by now that ICG is not the one that cannot grade, detect cleaning/damage/repairs, or authenticate coins. It's lucky for at least 85% of them that TPGS's exist!

PS I once tried to start a thread on ALL the possible words we can us to describe every TPGS but it was removed. ICG, NGC, and PCGS are especially subject to some really funny combinations.

 

I love when people rag on ICG & ANACS - as a basic collector, I try to buy the coin not the slab, and I like the nice discount on same grade coins in ICG & ANACS slabs, I like it a lot!

 

Boy I wish that thread was still up. I'd consider it a challenge and probably be banned from CT for life.

 

I have switched to ICG for most of my varieties ( except the ones that Insider saw a problem where he convinced me there was some merit to downgrading it, so those get sent to PCGS as they have never noticed it and probably never will . Shhhh.