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Message:: [QUOTE="Speedie, post: 1051866, member: 28064"]Ugh. I had a whole long reply typed out with recent results from Heritage auctions and so forth, and when I hit the "Post" button the connection timed out and it disappeared. You'd think by now I'd have learned to copy/paste into Notepad before posting a long reply, but nooooo... The gist of it was that PCGS coins do tend to command a premium in the market. Whether that's justifiable or not is open to a debate to which countless forum pages have been devoted. For me, if I can find PCGS coins for the same price as NGC, in the same condition, then I'll take the PCGS coin every time just for the perceived premium. On the other hand, if I can find equally nice coins in an NGC holder and the price is substantially lower, well, I'm not a brand snob or a registry set addict. You'll notice that for the plain bullion ASEs I went with NGC MS69. They were only really a "complete the set of every ASE ever minted" purchase and I happened to get a great deal on the whole 1986 - 2010 collection, probably 30% less than I could have bought the same coins in a PCGS holder for.  As the saying goes around here, buy the coin and not the holder. For example I'm currently looking for a 1964 Kennedy Half in either PR68 or PR69 DCAM. If I can find an equally nice coin in an NGC holder, but pay substantially less for it than I would in a PCGS holder, then I won't hesitate to pull the trigger.[/QUOTE]