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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2884626, member: 15929&quot;]Sending in your coin to PCGS would be a waste of your money and your time. SMS or not, the coin would not be worth the $50 it would cost just in grading fee&#039;s.</p><p>$18 - Modern Fee</p><p>$10 - Handling Fee</p><p>$21.95 Return Shipping Fee</p><p>$7.00 Cost to send to PCGS</p><p><br /></p><p>If it turned out to be an SMS MS67, it &#039;might&#039; be worth $50.</p><p>If it turned out to be a regular MS65, it &#039;might&#039; be worth $45.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could almost guarantee that it&#039;s NOT an MS66 nor a SMS MS68 and please remember, PCGS grades SMS and business strike coins &#039;differently&#039; where the grade is based upon what they feel is the coins relative &#039;value&#039; in the market vs it&#039;s technical grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason they do this is that it is nearly impossibly to differentiate a business strike 1966 Kennedy from an SMS Strike 1966 Kennedy unless there are &#039;obvious&#039; characteristics (high luster, CAMEO, or specific Variety known only to MS or SMS coins) which your coin appears to have none of.</p><p><br /></p><p>Opinions are usually based upon experience of which there is a lot on these boards and your particular coin just does not appear to be a high dollar coin which would warrant &#039;sending it in&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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