Certified GSA Dollars
MrEureka
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My understanding is that the market favors NGC for GSA Dollars. Is that true?
Andy Lustig
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Yes.
For storage definitely. Although I’ve cracked mine out with PCGS. Even more space efficient.
So it’s all about the holder?
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I personally think so. They have the belly band and PCGS has the big wrapper. A lot of people wish PCGS would adopt the option of a belly band as well. If they did I might consider it but the original GSA holder doesn’t mean too much to me.
it seems to be more about the storage and the plastic than the coin.
I just handled a few PCGS GSAs recently for the first time and they were... difficult. Compared to a regular GSA (which is effectively what a NGC GSA dollar is), they were a pain to store and especially to ship, where I had to worry about the box getting crushed by the slab, rather than just putting the GSA holder in the box and protecting it as one unit. Can't speak to value of one or the other, though.
I prefer the PCGS wrapper over the NGC band... I don't care about space.
The link below to a poll I started a week or so ago.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1037480/should-pcgs-change-the-way-they-are-grading-gsas#latest
I prefer the belly band !!!
I would say yes!
With the so called belly band it will still fit in the original government packaging.
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I also prefer NGC.
As I have stated in the other thread, for those CC GSA Morgans that I do have, I prefer them in the original package. I am not a 'slab' collector, of any type. However, that was the way I purchased them, unopened from GSA. So, although I did not keep the shipping cardboard box, I have them as packaged. Cheers, RickO
Most GSA collectors that I talk to like the way that NGC has a fairly unobtrusive wrapper for certifying GSAs. It allows you to still keep your GSAs in the original box if you prefer and does not add bulk.
yes, it is true. And the PCGS holders are cumbersome as well. On a side note, I suspect the PCGS holders are better for anti-counterfeiting purposes. While I have not heard of counterfeit slabbed GSAs, I suspect they have been or will be attempted.
Tom
Yet the market seems to prefer PCGS for most other US coins. What's most intriguing to me is that if NGC can win the GSA market with a better packaging solution, maybe they can win other markets in a similar way.
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