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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1381344, member: 112"]It's not that old, from 2004 I believe. The only reason I posted it was to show what companies they actually do use in their charts. As to what the charts mean, well people have claimed them as being gospel when they are trying to back up their belief that PCGS is the creme de le creme of the TPGs. Of course they always seemed to ignore the charts when they didn't say what they wanted them to say. This one for example, if you actually look at it you'll see that it rates ICG as the highest, NGC second, and PCGS third. There are plenty of other examples that show similar results, many with NGC as the highest. But what most seem to always ignore is what CDN explains as those charts meaning. CDN gets their prices every week from a large group of dealers all over the country. Then compile them, and come up with a number. The chart is to indicate the TPG that has the best prices being offered for coins in their slabs at that particular point in time. Now to anybody that knows coins, the results in those charts would not be surprising. That's because they'd know that the prices being offered are dependent on the coins, not the plastic. So if the dealers just happened to have some nice coins that week that just happened to be in ICG slabs, and the same coins found in NGC and PCGS slabs that week not as nice as those in the ICG slabs, then ICG would get the top rating that week. In other words, the charts are meaningless because they are based on pure chance occurrences. But they do show consistency in one regard for never did I see a single one where either NGC, PCGS, or ICG did not get the top rating. Of course in recent years, that has changed. Now it's always NGC or PCGS.[/QUOTE]

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