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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 16445, member: 824&quot;]PCGS price guides are, in my opinion, higher priced than what the market will bear.&nbsp; PCGS slabs seem to sell higher than NGC which seem to sell more than ICG, ANACS, etc.&nbsp; Slab-Mania has taken hold!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>You have to buy the coin first, not the slab!</b>&nbsp; For instance, I have bought ICG and ANACS slabbed coins for less than half of what PCGS graded coins were getting, broke them out, submitted them to PCGS.&nbsp; In many cases, I got the same grade (or sometimes better!) and later sold them at a nice profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to shows and you will find these gems a prices no way near what PCGS slabs get.&nbsp; Look at the coin and see what they are selling for.&nbsp; If you want a PCGS or NGC slab, think about breaking them out and submitting them to the big two.&nbsp; After the cost for the coin, the re-submission expense back to PCGS or NGC along with S&amp;H costs, you may end out ahead!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red"><b>Personally, my favorite slabs are ICG</b>.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; I like the Intercept Shield because I have found nothing better to protect my coins than this technology and they are also making waves in the &quot;slabbing&quot; industry.&nbsp; One of the reasons I like slabbed coins is the sonically sealed inert materials that hold and protect coins.&nbsp; The Intercept Shield makes ICG slabbed coins the best protected slabs in the market.&nbsp; If somebody has a better, coin-protected, slab...let me know! </p><p><br /></p><p>Some dealers stubbornly state that ICG stands for &quot;I can&#039;t grade&quot;, but I have found some really nice graded ICG coins at prices way less than PCGS graded coins for the same coin in the same grade!</p><p><br /></p><p>Heritage Auctions is now selling ICG coins and if you watch Grey Sheet indicators, ICG is always in the tops with PCGS and NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Check this out...<a href="http://www.greysheet.com/cdn/cdnccmi.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.greysheet.com/cdn/cdnccmi.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.greysheet.com/cdn/cdnccmi.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Who knows, maybe their slabs will command a premium on selling prices like PCGS is getting right now!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for prices, Coin World&#039;s &quot;Coin Values&quot; or Grey Sheets are a good starting point.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are right about getting what you want if you buy sight unseen (all things being equal, which they are not with subjective grading companies), If you have to buy sight unseen, I would stick to PCGS, NGC, ICG and ANACS...and sometimes, NOT necessarily in that order.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, go and have some fun...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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