PCGS Service Announcement - New "Genuine" Service

TPGs provide a very useful service with authentication. That is where I draw the line and it's where they should have always stayed. ANACS when it was part of the ANA had alot of respect when they just authenticated coins. In fact, they still do 30 years later when it comes to authentication.

But I have and always have had and most likely always will have issues with market grading. Such as where's the market? The opinions of a dozen or so top tier TPG graders are not the market. The *real* market will prevail and it doesn't give a rat's behind what on anyone's holder.

I have issues with the very word market being used in grading. It gives legitimacy to what is really nothing more than whimsy, greed, or gullibility in coin collectors.

Then there are re-submissions. Why for? If graders are really in sync with the market, if their grading ability is really as good as they claim, if collectors didn't change their minds on what they like and don't like more often than they change their under ware then there shouldn't even be a procedure for resubmissions.

No thank you. I will send my coins to NCS and save $60. I am with the author. $100 is absurd! Like I have said before, I generally use the TPG's for the holder (long term storage and encapsulation) and I think NCS's holder is just fine for problem coins.