TPG Grade Question, Particularily PCGS Online Grades

Panzaldi ........... I'm not so sure your understanding holds water either. Actually Numismedia is $49 not $46, and NGC is at $50. Since NGC also grades and slabs coins, they are almost identical to Numismedia that doesn't slab their own coins. So they couldn't possibly think that a coin in their holder is only worth another buck over raw.

If you look at this same 1886 in XF-40 grade they are almost the same. Numismedia at $46, PCGS at $47 and the difference in the AU-55 is just a different opinion as the the present value. I'm leaning towards the retail values they post are for any coin raw or graded and the slight differences are just judgement calls but not because a coin has been professionally graded. But I wish somebody that really knew would chime in on this.

Well then it looks like my presumption was wrong, and both Zurie and Panzaldi were correct. I assumed backwards thinking since Numismedia didn't slab or grade coins, that there prices were for raw as well as graded, but reading what Zurie and Panzaldi said, and now reading NGC's own disclaimer, it appears that when Numismedia grades a coin, they are also pricing for graded coins.

Here is what I just read at NGC ..............


And I haven't yet read the PCGS disclaimer but assume it will be pretty much the same.

Well that all makes sense looking at it this way. Raw is whatever the buyer and seller thinks it is and both sale and purchase prices will reflect that.

Thanks you two for sharing your knowledge.

If you want more realistic retail values, check eBay's Sold Coins.

The Greysheet will be more realistic too; they have it listed at about $44.
Of course that's raw and slabbing would cost about double that price.