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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 26057914, member: 77639&quot;]I’m interested primarily French and British coins with a slight interest in recent Central Asian coins.&nbsp; The rest of world coins are a black hole for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the areas of interest, I don’t see a lot of difference between NGC and PCGS.&nbsp; For example, go to cgbfr.com (probably the biggest French dealer), and pick a period (say Second Empire) and denomination (say 5-franc gold).&nbsp; Then look under “slabs”.&nbsp; You’ll probably see far more PCGS coins than NGC.&nbsp; Although I haven’t made a statistical study, subjectively, prices are comparable.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS marketing isn’t stupid.&nbsp; They realize the biggest growth areas are recent mint issues and world coins.&nbsp; Most older U.S. coins worth slabbing have been slabbed. Go to <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/shared-orders/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/shared-orders/" rel="nofollow">www.pcgs.com/shared-orders/</a>, and you’ll see most of the coins being graded are world coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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