Which TPG Is The Cheapest Way To Go?

Honestly I would go with ICG if you're more concerned about the error or variety identification than the grade. They've got good error experts, and they're extremely cheap

There is a reason for that. Go ANACS. I dont think there is a membership fee

Eww, toe jam company.









If you are willing to pay a little bit extra you can have the NGC name on the slab which is infinitely better in today's market. ANACS isn't bad, but they're not great either. The order from best to worst is PCGS,NGC,ANACS and everything else sucks.




1 Modern Coin with either variety or error attribution is $14 (base cost for coin) + $9 for attribution (cost for variety or error) at ANACS.

NGC is $17 (base cost) + $15 (cost for variety/error).

PCGS is $16 (base cost) + $18 (for variety) or $65 per coin for errors.

ANACS is cheapest, followed by NGC, than PCGS at the most expensive. ANACS has a much lower marketability, a lower quality slab (my opinion) and less of a name to them. If you cut corners on price you cut corners on quality. With ANACS you're only saving $12 per coin. Is saving the $60 important? Than go ANACS. If you can spare it go NGC.




If you want to sent to NGC or PCGS drop me a PM. I work at a coin shop in MD and would be more than happy to let you submit under our account

Yeah, that reason is because people don't respect the grading standards of ICG as much. If he were sending in a high MS Morgan or similar I wouldn't have suggested ICG. Error coins aren't as reliant on grades to determine value, it's more about the severity/rarity of the error. ICG is more than capable of classifying error coins, if that's all that's necessary. ESPECIALLY if on a budget. ANACS is fine too, but if you want decent certification at the absolute cheapest you can get, ICG is the way to go. It's like $40 less than ANACS.

Grape, as far as I'm aware, ICG is good at error and variety classification.

Or you could keep the money in your own pocket and post them here so we can help you. We have experts in this forum (some very respected in the hobby). Otherwise you just needlessly pad the pockets of the companies.

Almost as funny as what's at this link and "The" experts:
http://goccf.com/t/346174#2967242

Posted this to make sure the OP understands these companies only give opinions, and collectors who do objective homework will find the wisdom of the saying here on CCF of, "Buy the coin not the slab."

Since the masses will pay more for the PCGS, for selling its likely best to go with PCGS. Just remember a coin broken out of a slab abd resubmitted is never guranteed the same grade again - even if untouched and even if submitted to the same company.

They are tops in grading and pretty good at errors, but DON'T trust them on varieties. For varieties PCGS and NGC are at the bottom of the heap, which the additional problem that NGC does NOT guarantee their attributions. PCGS does, but theyaren't much better at attributions than NGC. Believe it or not the best at attributions is SEGS, then probably ANACS.

One thing that wasn't mentioned earlier in the costs was that there is also a $10 per invoice "handling fee" at NGC and PCGS, I don't see that ANACS has such a fee. So if you have five modern coins that you want slabbed as errors at ANACS it would be $120 (5 * $15 plus 5 * $9 if you tell them the variety/error). At NGC $170 and PCGS $180 for varieties or $415 for mint errors. (That $65 fee per coin for identifying errors at PCGS is a killer)