It finally hit me! Revelation about slabs
kieferscoins
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Okay. I am sitting at home during lunch today and took a look through some of my recent photos from our family trip. I pulled this photo out and thought how strange. There I am standing with my brother and a PCGS slab in my hand!? Why? I don't know. Sometimes I just carry them around.
Thinking for a minute and after the last few nights of chatting with others about biases about a certain grading company I think I have found my own bias. I have always liked PCGS and will still in the future, but have probably been in my own shell when it comes too slabs. I always search for PCGS on ebay, skip dealers tables with non PCGS holders etc. Yes, I have a PCGS registry set, but thinking back, I probably missed some nice coins in other slabs. I felt like posting since there may be others out there like me. From now on I will take more time and check out coins in NGC holders. There are probably some good one to cross to PCGS.
Cameron Kiefer
Thinking for a minute and after the last few nights of chatting with others about biases about a certain grading company I think I have found my own bias. I have always liked PCGS and will still in the future, but have probably been in my own shell when it comes too slabs. I always search for PCGS on ebay, skip dealers tables with non PCGS holders etc. Yes, I have a PCGS registry set, but thinking back, I probably missed some nice coins in other slabs. I felt like posting since there may be others out there like me. From now on I will take more time and check out coins in NGC holders. There are probably some good one to cross to PCGS.
Cameron Kiefer
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Jeremy
Carl
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Careful now, if the moderators read this they might take it as a form of treason and strip you of your special "good guy" title! Seriously, I have found some very nice coins in different holders. PCI, for one, is often under rated in my opinion, but the most fun comes in finding a raw beauty. (At a give-away price of course!)
Joe
P.S. Strong family resemblance between you and your bro. Does he collect?
Obscurum per obscurius
look at NGC...look at ANACS...and above all look at raw stuff....challenge your skill. You'll be amazed what you see (and like) outside the PCGS shell...
Obscurum per obscurius
<< <i>Careful now, if the moderators read this they might take it as a form of treason and strip you of your special "good guy" title! >>
Hey. I nebver said that I was stopping PCGS coins, but looking for NGC ones to Cross!
Life before slabs? Never seen that.
Cameron Kiefer
Seriously, there are a lot of great coins in other plastic. I had good luck at finding a number of crossover coins in ICG slabs when ICG first started. They really seemed to set some strict standards initially and I had a number of crackout crosses to PCGS at great discount pricing. Not so easy today but I think there are still deals to be had.
<< <i>Stay on the path, young Grasshopper... >>
...and be squashed like a bug!
Clank
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Cameron Kiefer
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Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>but apparently a key grader at PCGS defected to NGC because PCGS was compromising their standards by allowing owner retailers of coins (David Bowers and Hall) be owners of the same company that was doing grading for them - creating an obvious conflict of interest. >>
Rick Montgomery - The President did leave, but I don't think that is the reason. He would have left then when PCGS was bought by Collectors Universe two years ago. He may have just wanted a change (he has been at PCGS since it's beginning).
Cameron Kiefer
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<< <i>Rick Montgomery - The President did leave, but I don't think that is the reason. He would have left then when PCGS was bought by Collectors Universe two years ago. He may have just wanted a change (he has been at PCGS since it's beginning). >>
No, he wasn't. PCGS started accepting coins for grading in Feb of 1986 and at that time Rick Montgomery was Director at ANACS. Rick didn't leave ANACS and join PCGS until Sept of 1987. In a recent Press release Rick is quoted as saying that he is happy to be at NGC because NGC has become THE standard in grading for the coin industry. I guess ANACS was the standard, then PCGS was the standard, and now NGC must be the standard. Right?
K S
<< <i>he is happy to be at NGC because NGC has become THE standard in grading for the coin industry >>
Of course he's going to say something like this for whatever company he works at. After all, he is mostly PR people, right? That's why they pay him the big bucks; good backscratchers are expensive.
OK, halfway there. You reach true enlightenment when you can buy an NGC coin and decide NOT to cross it.
Yes, I have a PCGS registry set, but thinking back, I probably missed some nice coins in other slabs
How does that saying go?
Buy the slab and maybe there's a nice coin in it? Buy the best Registry certs?
Umm..Oh yeah, buy the coin not the holder.
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Heck, they may be worth keeping even if you DON'T cross them to pcgs.
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