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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1680934, member: 112&quot;]usc - </p><p><br /></p><p>You ask, what am I missing ? I would answer that what you are missing is the obvious. Did you ever stop to consider that perhaps the coin is the reason for the price difference, and not the plastic ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Consider this -&nbsp; here are two 1865 2 cent pieces, both graded MS65 RB by PCGS, and both with the CAC sticker.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1174&amp;lotNo=7464" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1174&amp;lotNo=7464" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1174&amp;lotNo=7464</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1183&amp;lotNo=7225" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1183&amp;lotNo=7225" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1183&amp;lotNo=7225</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And yet coin #1 sold for $499 and coin $2 sold for $822 - that&#039;s over 60% more for coin #2. And yet both are graded by PCGS and both have the CAC sticker. So why the huge difference in price ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are 2 more examples of the same coin, both graded MS65 Red by PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&amp;lotNo=4442" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&amp;lotNo=4442" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&amp;lotNo=4442</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1181&amp;lotNo=3246" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1181&amp;lotNo=3246" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1181&amp;lotNo=3246</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #1 sold for $1380 and coin #2 sold for $2115. Again, coin #2 sold for 60% more than coin #1. But both are graded the same by the same TPG. So why the difference ?</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an extremely common occurrence. You can find countless examples of the very same coin graded the same grade by the same TPG, and yet one will sell for much more than the other, sometimes more than double what the other sells for.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you cannot expect coins graded the same by the same TPG to sell for the same, or at least similar amounts, then how can you possibly expect coins graded by a different TPG to sell for the same or similar amounts ? The answer is easy, you can&#039;t. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, as others have said in this thread the reason is because of perception, marketing, registry differences, blah blah blah. But the reason is also often because of the coins themselves, because educated buyers see one coin as being nicer than the other coin, even though they are graded the same and by the same TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, they ignore the plastic and buy the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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