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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2507371, member: 71723&quot;]Okay, I am an unofficial &quot;company man&quot; attitudinally for the ANA. Therefore, I am now exclusively an NGC man, also. I still have paleo-accounts at ANACS and ICG, but I have only rarely used them since I opened an NGC account. Both ANACS and ICG have their specialties - VAM attribution for ANACS, but I&#039;m not a Morgan guy, much less a VAMmer. ICG does really nice quality work for more types of exonumia than NGC does, although the gap is closing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was VERY active with ANACS in the &quot;small slab&quot; era and I &quot;cut my eye teeth&quot; learning about grading based on what I sent them in the 1990&#039;s. The problem occurs when firms change ownership hands. In some cases, their positive reputations were earned by the standards of a previous owner, and when they change hands, what then? In ICG&#039;s case, their reputation suffered. Ditto with ANACS before ICG. I own some PCGS coins, but I&#039;ve never submitted any. I don&#039;t care for the company&#039;s attitude one tiny bit. They slobber all over their big dealer accounts and largely treat collectors like dirt. Again, just my observation. I also dislike PCGS&#039; physical slab itself, and MUCH prefer the NGC slab&#039;s look and feel. Perhaps the best reason to choose PCGS, if you can become a &quot;PCGS favored person&quot; is the PCGS blue boxes are more ubiquitous and cheaper than the NGC silver boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also never submitted a coin to CAC and right now, I own only one such piece. I&#039;m still perplexed by the value proposition of CAC beaning. Anything other than PCGS, NGC, ANACS, or ICG might as well NOT BE SLABBED AT ALL. The coin will bring more raw than being &quot;imprisoned&quot; in a PCI, NTC, SEGS, ACCGS, or NNC slab. Sorry, that&#039;s just the truth. I do keep one NNC slab with what I believe is an UNDERgraded (!!!) Franklin half in it, just to remind myself that all rules have exceptions. I have shown it to numerous experts (grade hidden) who ALL agree it is at least two points undergraded by NNC (MS range).</p><p><br /></p><p>I am in the slow but steady process of having all my coins &quot;crossed over&quot; to NGC holders, even the PCGS ones, because I like the combination of product and customer service that much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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