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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1575718, member: 4626&quot;]Speaking only for myself, but I don&#039;t care much about marketability of coins except when I buy them, as I rarely if ever sell them.&nbsp; I buy most coins raw and generally ignore what a TPG has to say about a coin when I buy it graded and use my own judgement (though if I think a coin is undergraded it&#039;s certainly a great buying opportunity to get a coin for less than it would otherwise go for).&nbsp; If it&#039;s a coin that&#039;s commonly faked, like a trade dollar, I rely on TPGs for sake of authentication, not for their grading opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for getting coins graded myself, I mainly do that not because I care (much) about their grading but for the sake of making coins easier to preserve and store.&nbsp; I do this with modern commemoratives a lot, as the original packaging gets unwieldy once I accumulate quite a few.&nbsp; Viewing, preserving, and storing them is much more convenient in slabs.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really care whose, and thus I use ANACS for no other reason that they&#039;re cheaper and faster.&nbsp; The coins will speak for themselves in the unlikely event I ever decide to sell them.&nbsp; Unless they&#039;re an ultra-high grade it won&#039;t really matter that they&#039;re in an ANACS slab as opposed to PCGS or NGC.&nbsp; Modern commems tend to grade high anyway to the point that even MS/PF 69&#039;s don&#039;t carry much of a premium.&nbsp; (70&#039;s do in the rare case you get those of course).&nbsp; So for what I want/need them for, ANACS is just fine.&nbsp; I almost never sell my coins, and when I do they&#039;re usually still raw anyway.&nbsp; As to how marketible an ANACS slab will be, that will be the problem of my heirs, not mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know I&#039;m not going to convince anyone of this, but I firmly believe that if ALL the TPGs went out of business tomorrow, the hobby would be better off.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t get why people place so much value in them at all, or decide that some are somehow better than others.&nbsp; But whatever.&nbsp; I&#039;ve made quite a few bargain purchases of coins that were in slabs of the supposedly less respected TPGs that would have cost me more in the so-called top tier ones.&nbsp; And the coins were just as good.&nbsp; That to me points out how ridiculous it is people put so much value in the name on a slab, that they forget it&#039;s the COIN they&#039;re supposed to be buying, not the slab.&nbsp; But whatever...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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