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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 1908238, member: 38783&quot;]&quot;It depends&quot;.&nbsp; That&#039;s the $64k question.</p><p><br /></p><p>First question - </p><p><br /></p><p>No offense meant here, but you don&#039;t really need to get coins graded to &quot;get serious&quot; about collecting, or organizing your collection.&nbsp; The plusses of grading to me are to: 1)verify authenticity, 2)build a registry set and 3)increase liquidity of the coins if you ever want to sell them to the general market.&nbsp; There&#039;s plenty of serious collectors out there who don&#039;t have their coins graded.&nbsp; The issue in today&#039;s internet world is that you may have a harder time selling them to the masses without them being graded.&nbsp; However if you&#039;re not planning on selling, then really there&#039;s no reason not to go the plastic 2x2 holder route with labels and stickers to organize everything for yourself.&nbsp; But, do what you like.&nbsp; I do both, for different reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, that tangent aside, to your original questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything typically with a &quot;FS&quot; designation to it will require the attribution fee for most TPG&#039;s.&nbsp; Coins which are just &quot;types&quot;, will not.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example in the Ike world, there&#039;s the 1971-D &quot;Friendly Eagle&quot; variety, which is also marked as FS-901.&nbsp; This requires the $24 attrib fee.&nbsp; Then, there&#039;s the 1972 Type 1,2,3.&nbsp; The type 1 &amp; 3 do not require the $24 fee, but the type 2, since it&#039;s also known as the &quot;FS-901&quot;, does.&nbsp; Meanwhile the 1976 Type 1,2 coins, those do not require the attrib fee, those are just types.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never graded a SBA, but I&#039;m going to assume those are just &quot;types&quot; and don&#039;t require it.&nbsp; A quick call/e-mail to their customer service will clear a lot of that up, quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for services, it also depends on the coin series which one you might want to use.&nbsp; typically PGCS holds a higher resale value than NGC, in general, but the gap is closing.&nbsp; However, NGC does have much cheaper pricing for grading in general, and a pretty good discount ($15 opposed to PCGS&#039; $24) for their variety attribs, which if you have many, may make more sense to go that route.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, for Ikes, there is definitely a PCGS bias, where they are typically more strict in their grading, and have higher resale return for higher grades, sometimes by multiples, than NGC.&nbsp; For other series the two may be closer, and I&#039;m sure there are some series where NGC is considered just as good or better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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