Coin Collecting Club

The most trusted, reliable and reputable coin grading services are provided by the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) and The Numismatist Guaranty Corporation (NGC).  These are the best available services in the United States. So when you have coins that have a PCGS or NGC seal, you can be assured it is of a very high quality.

The grading policy or the stance they take is very conservative, so you need to know that they don’t just go stamping coins and declaring that they are of good quality just because they feel like it. The coin must be worth it and of very high quality to get either seal. It’s rather unfortunate that other grading services will put a seal of good quality on a coin just because of how it looks at face value rather than actually putting work into it. You then find a lot of disgruntled buyers for example when a coin has been graded high when its not. The buyer then goes to a coin grading service like PCGS or NGC for a second opinion and gets disappointed.

You have to look out for coin graders who claim to be at par with PCGS. If it’s not NGC claiming that, don’t trust them. NGC are the only ones who have grading services that are second to best of PCGS. An unscrupulous grader might grade a coin highly then mention that their grading is almost as high as that given by PCGS. Woe unto you when you buy it at a high price, then go to PCGS for a second opinion and you find that you were duped. Be careful when dealing with coin graders.