An Intriguing Imbalance posted by Revenant

[CSJournals-migration]

A bit of cross comparison between the NGC, PMG, and CGC registries

 

I don't know if the rest of you have ever thought about this, but the NGC registry has 6040 ranked members (and remember that you have to have at least 1 point worth of coins in order to rank). CGC has about 1860 and PMG limps in with about 180 ranked members.

 

Is this any indication of the relative popularity of the hobbies? Is it more likely a statement as to which groups are most likely to get their collectables encapsulated and then join the registry? Or is it that the Certified Collectables Group is just much more strongly associated with the NGC brand? I've been looking around a bit and the market for PMG graded notes seems every bit as vibrant as that for NGC graded coins. So why are there 33 members with a coin registered for every 1 member with a note? Why is there 3+ coin collectors on this site for every 1 comic collector?

 

I've recently joined those with a foot in 2 camps, but I'm stunned by just how much bigger the coin community is.

[JAA]

I don't know about other collectors but at least in my case it is because PMG does not grade the notes that I collect.

 

I collect both USA/Philippines coins (struck by the US for use in the Philippines from 1903 - 1945) and Philippine Emergency and Guerrilla Currency of World War ll. I certify all of my better US/Philippine coins and list all of my NGC and PCGS certified coins in my Registry Sets. In fact my US/Philippine Type Set recenttly reviewed a "2011 Best Presented Set Award". You can visit my set by going to the NGC Registry, click on "competive sets", then click on either "all" or "US", then scroll down to and click on "Type Sets", scroll down to and click on "USA/Philippine Type Set". My set is listed as the "JAA USA/Philippines Type Set Collection" and is marked with a light blue 2011 ribbon.

 

Although I have a large collection of nice Philippine Guerrilla Currency I do not have the option of submitting them for grading as PMG does not accept them for grading. Perhaps if PMG would be more inclusive of the notes it accepted for grading more collectors would have PMG Registry Sets.

[Mokiechan]

Stamp collecting seems to be a hobby on par with comics and banknotes, wonder why they are not "slabbed".

 

Later,

Malcolm