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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;40_mila_kokkina, post: 1822846, member: 59115&quot;]I submitted 76 coins to SEGS.&nbsp; The whole process took 30 days to complete from the day I mailed them off at the post office. Since I submitted so many coins to them I will report my personal findings: My opinion is SEGS is a better third-party grader company for U.S. and Canadian coins and varieties. When it came to less commonly submitted foreign coins from places like Guyana, East Africa or Papua New Guinea, I just about am certain they were making mistakes regarding accurate catalog identification and grade (they made a good effort though). When it came to grading U.S. coinage their overall grading leaned towards very conservative. I was shocked at how low they graded many of my U.S. coins. Definitely SEGS is like day and night compared to SGS. It&#039;s <u>hard</u> to get a 70 coin returned from SEGS! In fact my highest graded coin(s) I got returned was a 67. In general though I found SEGS undergraded my Flying Eagle Cents, beautifully toned Jefferson and Buffalo Nickels, Peace Dollar and foreign tokens. Accurately graded my Indian Cent, Booker T. Washington Half, Iowa Commemorative Halves, and my San Diego Half. I feel they might have been a bit generous grading my Bay Bridge Halves I submitted (no problem with that) U.S. tokens and just a tad generous many of my silver foreign coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I primarily use SEGS for their great quality slabs and the fact you can be a regular &quot;Joe Shmo&quot; like myself and need no affiliations (PNG, ANA, etc.) to submit to them. They also are pretty good in terms of customer service.</p><p><br /></p><p>I dealt with ICG once too (never slabbed with them though) and I found their customer service, ease of use and friendly staff were outstanding!</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought coins from SGS too over Ebay directly from the third-party grader. In every case their coins were overgraded. I had to return half of them because they were roughly 5 points overgraded. SGS does have great customer service as well in my limited experience with them.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">edited - forum rules</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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