3RD Party Grading Company?

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I have seen some graded slabs on one internet auction site that are just priced to good to be true, which means they probably are.

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You obviously already know everything you need to know about any " TPG" which isn't PCGS, NGC, ICG, ANACS, or SEGS.

Although there are plenty of fake Morgans on the market, even the Alphabet Slabbers are generally too smart to be slabbing them. That's a felony in the US. For the most part, they're just ridiculously overgrading real ones.

SEGS is owned by Larry Briggs, a top of the line Numismatist and a specialist in Liberty Seated coinage and early copper. Since most of their people are variety specialist people, SEGS tends to be better with the early classics and Varety identification than the other services, and less so with 20th century isses and moderns.

That was a VERY rare personal opinion in my case about a grading service. I don't normally say anything about the ability of the services.

SEGS began operations in late 1998, about the same time as ICG.

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The only problem will be when I go to sell it.

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If the margin you made on the "deal" is great enough, and your grading abilities good enough, you can always crack it out and submit to one of the top two.....May be worth it on the high priced tuff like that.