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Actually not a basement slabber. ICG is a legit company that's been around for 2 decades. From what I've read online, ANACS and ICG basically swapped graders at some point. General consensus is that ICG ranks behind ANACS but ahead of anyone else not named PCGS and NGC. Not a basement slabber, but not the best TPG. And honestly the sellers photos are terrible. Could be anywhere between a typical 25 and weakly-struck 58. Edited by Tanman2001
04/28/2020 9:57 pm
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Actually not a basement slabber. ICG is a legit company that's been around for 2 decades. This Quote:General consensus is that ICG ranks behind ANACS but ahead of anyone else not named PCGS and NGC. Not a basement slabber, but not the best TPG. Accurate Here's something else to keep in mind. 3CS suck. Not as a series, but as a production nightmare. Their small and thin size made it almost impossible to strike up properly and they had tons of clashes. Weak strikes are a part of life in the early parts of the 3CS series, which the 1851-O falls under. The higher relief and better designs came after almost a decade of work. |
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I agree with @Tanman2001 and @GrapeCollects. ICG is respectable. They do a solid job authenticating coins, and are usually somewhere in the ballpark on technical grading. The old adage "buy the coin, and not the slab" adjusts for the times they wander.
The true basement slabbers generally only "grade" their own coins for resale. Not surprisingly, their own coins miraculously lose circulation, alterations, and contact marks in the process, and gain dozens of points on the grading scale as a result. (About like used cars losing miles on certain used car lots . . .)
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 with fortcollins, GrapeCollects, Tanman2001 My preference is PCGS-NGC-ANACS in that order John1  |
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My preference is PCGS-NGC-ANACS in that order Even the big names make mistakes, this coin is details and it graded straight.   Edited by hfjacinto
04/29/2020 08:26 am
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Yes,everyone makes mistakes...it is only human. But,go with the ones that make the least amount of mistakes  This leads back to,buy the coin not the slab. John1 |
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Like others have said, ICG is a legit TPG. Their grading on the coin is reasonable. The problem is that the seller WAY overpriced it. It's a DETAILS coin and at most should be priced in the $150-200 range. |
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I think they may have been overoptimistic at AU58, but I could see it as an AU, and they are right calling it details, so overall they haven't done too badly.
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