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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 8668960, member: 46237&quot;]It depends on what you collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>All around, NGC is the best option if you&#039;re only going to pick one TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS is better or on par with NGC for almost all US types, so its the best choice if you are exclusively a US collector. There are some US types that are graded better by NGC though, like capped bust varieties and Jefferson nickels. If you collect Morgan&#039;s by VAM, you may wish to go with ANACS as they attribute the most VAMs.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you collect world coins, you want to go with NGC. PCGS overgrades world coins a lot, though many PCGS world coins are also correctly graded. They are not close to NGC in terms of their identification of world types, including varieties, and they have not put in the same time and effort NGC has done to create a well-organized world catalog and census.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that there are some countries that have their own TPGs that may be better for that specific country&#039;s coins. So if you&#039;re really deep into a specific country&#039;s coinage that has their own respected TPG, that may be a better option than NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you collect ancients and for some reason want a slabbed coin you are in the vast minority, but you&#039;ll also be using NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you collect medals or jetons and want them slabbed, for US medals either PCGS or NGC are good. For world medals it depends on the medal. NGC grades and identifies them superior to PCGS medal service, but PCGS is more flexible in slabbing more types of medals without a perfect identification. For example, PCGS would slab something as &quot;silver medal&quot; whereas if NGC couldn&#039;t positively identify it in a major catalog they would not slab it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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