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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bud Olesen, post: 3893849, member: 108732&quot;]I would like to say a few things about coin grading services. I have more than 60 slabbed &amp; graded coins. When I look for graded coins, I always look for the coins I like, in my price range.</p><p>Certainly, PCGS and NGC are the most sought after coins for consistency of grade. Anyone who has collected for some time knows this. The grade each coin receives is nothing more than the consensus of the graders that examined the coin. Because grading is not a science, but an opinion, all grading is subject to human error.</p><p>I wanted to check this out for myself, so I took a PCGS MS70 Silver Eagle that the plastic slab had a crack in it. The coin is not of high value, but a really nice coin, anyway.</p><p>I thought it was a great time for an experiment. I carefully took the Eagle out of the PCGS slab it was in and submitted it to ICG for an economy grading. After a few weeks, the Eagle came back from ICG, in their slab. The Eagle had the exact same MS70 grade that it had when it was in the PCGS slab.</p><p>Since that time, I have purchased several coins graded by ICG. What I&#039;ve found is that the ICG slabbed and graded coins are always less expensive than coins graded by PCGS or NCG.</p><p>I have gathered quite a bit of information on ICG. I would say that they are more involved in just grading coins and doing coin shows than they are selling coins in stylish slabs, and the other products that PCGS or NGC push. </p><p>Personally, I feel the coin collecting community is controlled by a bunch of &quot;SNOBS.&quot; The people at the top of the hobby manipulate the hobby to keep PCGS and NGC as the top tier graders, ICG and ANACS have been relegated to second-tier companies, but DO NOT THINK for one minute you are buying an inferiorly graded coin.</p><p>Again, coin grading is an Opinion and not Science. All 4 of the top grading services make mistakes, even PCGS &amp; NGC make mistakes too!!!</p><p>I don&#039;t think for one minute that this ISN&#039;T A PRECONCEIVED PLAN by the top two coin grading services to keep ICG beneath them in the coin collecting community. </p><p>I will tell you that when I attend a coin show, I buy the coin that fits my budget and the coin I like, not the Grading Company!!!</p><p>I like ICG very much!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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