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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2970183, member: 10461&quot;]This.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is accurate as well.&nbsp; I personally use PCGS for everything that isn&#039;t ancient in my collection (of the &quot;Big Two&quot;, only NGC grades ancients), but NGC does have a much bigger market share (and presumably more experience) with World coins than PCGS does.&nbsp; PCGS has the edge with US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My personal hierarchy:</p><ol> <li><b>PCGS</b> (#1 in US coins and my choice for non-ancient World coins for personal reasons)</li> <li><b>NGC </b>(generally seen as #1 in World coins, the only top-tier service that grades ancients)</li> <li><b>ANACS</b> (second-tier but with a long history; still respectable in US coins)</li> <li><b>ICG</b> (second within the second-tier but recognized in the market)</li> </ol><p>Those are the four that eBay recognizes as certification services.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I also personally recognize ICCS for Canadian coins only.)</p><p><br /></p><p>All the rest can be considered &quot;third tier&quot; (some say &quot;Third World&quot;).&nbsp; Treat them as you would a raw coin.&nbsp; This is not to say that services like the old PCI or SEGS are useless or untrustworthy.&nbsp; It&#039;s just more &quot;hit or miss&quot; there, and for whatever reason (fairly or not), they are considered third-tier in the marketplace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those somewhat more &quot;respectable&quot; third-tier services (fairly or not) get lumped in with all the other fly-by-night services which are more deserving of their shady reputations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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