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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 969494, member: 15309&quot;]As always, I have to re-read your bolded posts that never have paragraphs and always have improper spacing and grammatical errors to understand your point.&nbsp; Are you actually saying that ICG is &quot;far&quot; more consistent than NGC?&nbsp; Now let me understand this.&nbsp; You are claiming that you your experience has led you to handle thousands of &quot;high value&quot; coins and that of these &quot;high value&quot; coins, you seldom find an ICG coin that is improperly graded!</p><p><br /></p><p>I will actually agree with you but not because ICG is a top tier grading company with strict standards and established consistency.&nbsp; The reason I agree is because you rarely find a &quot;high value&quot; coin in an ICG holder.&nbsp; If you search Heritage&#039;s auction archives you will find that over 100,000 NGC and PCGS coins have been sold for $1K+.&nbsp; I assume that choosing the $1K mark to define &quot;high value&quot; is acceptable.&nbsp; In the same search, 2,260 coins valued over $1K have been graded by ICG and sold by Heritage.&nbsp; If we look further, 606 of those coins are gold double eagles.&nbsp; The majority of those double eagles are MS62 or below which means they have very little numismatic value and the value is intrinsic.</p><p><br /></p><p>The majority of the purchasing public does not have the grading skills to challenge the proficiency of the professional graders at either NGC or PCGS.&nbsp; The simple fact is that their opinion is &quot;far&quot; more accurate and consistent than that of the ordinary collector.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recommend blindly accepting the TPG grade, but for a collector to rely solely on his own opinon because of percieved inconsistencies with the grades assigned by the TPG&#039;s is in a word, FOOLISH!</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, only 44 of the 2,260 ICG coins are worth more than $10K.&nbsp; Talk about rare![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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