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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 24980, member: 1113&quot;]I don&#039;t think anyone was calling ICG &quot;low tier.&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s just that crackouts would go to PCGS and NGC presumably.</p><p><br /></p><p>ICG overgrades a lot of high-grade moderns in my opinion.&nbsp; But for other coins they are as good as, and maybe a little better than, PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; The marketplace doesn&#039;t recognize it in terms of sale price, so it can be an opportunity.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same can be true for the old green label PCI slabs, particularly those with 10 digit serial numbers on the back.&nbsp; These are the first generation PCI slabs, and at that time they were pretty close to the &quot;majors&quot; in terms of strict grading.&nbsp; It&#039;s not as much of a secret as it used to be, but those old PCI slabs can bring you great bargains because the new gold-label PCI slabs are usually considerably overgraded and many buyers throw out the baby with the bathwater.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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