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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;david2400, post: 1303334, member: 34223&quot;]I thought this would be a good start for a new thread - I am starting a new thread with a post I wrote the other day summarizing the service levels and costs and how to submit your ASE sets for grading to PCGS or NGC.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1) PCGS stated that you can either ship the coins to them or bring them to one of the shows where they are going to take on-site submissions.&nbsp; The closest show is the Collectors Society Vegas show in mid-December (more info on their website).&nbsp; If you take them to the Vegas show you can open them&nbsp; in their presence, decide which ones to submit and they can either do&nbsp; modern service at $14/coin, FS at $32/coin, or on-site grading at those&nbsp; rates plus a surcharge of $65/coin (in addition to the $14 or $32 of&nbsp; course).&nbsp; PCGS coins submitted in sealed boxes or opened in their&nbsp; presence will get the special 25th Anniversary Set label regardless of&nbsp; what level of service you choose.&nbsp; I think that is probably the route I&nbsp; will take but will watch the pop reports online and see what people post&nbsp; their results are for those who send in and get results before Vegas.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For a full box of 5 sets/25 coins, it would cost $387.95 for modern&nbsp; service or $837.95 for the FS labels.&nbsp; If you want on-site grading, you&nbsp; save the $29.95 shipping but add a whopping $1,625 to pick up the coins&nbsp; the following day.&nbsp; Total fees = $1,983 for modern service or $2,433 for&nbsp; FS labels!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2) NGC will only do mail in submissions at $17 for the Special Modern Tier only, whether or not you with the ER designation on the special&nbsp; 25th Anniversary Set label if you submit them in sealed boxes.&nbsp; Therefore, they are not charging extra for the ER designation on the labels, it is just an issue of whether they are received in house by Dec 8 (see below).&nbsp; If you want&nbsp; the OGP returned (and who wouldn&#039;t), it will cost an extra $1.00 per set&nbsp; (not per coin) for return of the OGP plus the capsules.&nbsp; If you send it&nbsp; only the capsules only the RP and S-Proof will get the 25th Anniversary&nbsp; Set labels and the other three coins will get a 25th Anniversary black&nbsp; label but will not state that the coins were part of the set.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For a full box of 5 sets/25 coins, NGC will charge $394.45 for modern&nbsp; labels or $469.45 ER labels.&nbsp; All coins received in house before Dec 8&nbsp; will automatically be labeled Early Release unless you mark the&nbsp; submission form &quot;No Early Releases.&quot;&nbsp; If you want the OGP returned add&nbsp; an additional $5 for the return of all boxes and capsules and be sure to&nbsp; clearly mark the submission form with &quot;Return Mint Packaging&quot; and you&nbsp; get the good stuff back too.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>* If the PCGS and NGC population reports are coming in at similar splits&nbsp; between 70 &amp; 69, I will probably submit to PCGS.&nbsp; My experience has&nbsp; shown that where PCGS usually grades 1 out of 3 moderns as MS70 or&nbsp; PF70, NGC will usually grade 2 out of 3 as MS70 or PF70.&nbsp; Personally, I&nbsp; am hoping that the grades will come in a little closer between the two&nbsp; companies so I can bring them to Vegas directly and then I will leave&nbsp; the coins for shipping back to me to save a bit on fees.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Probably I will keep the 70s for myself and sell the 69s (now or later)&nbsp; to pay for the substantial investment (close to $1900 a box or more) of a&nbsp; graded box of 5 sets.&nbsp; Just my plans, but I thought the summary might&nbsp; help people decide as well.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If people could submit the grades as you find them out, I am sure we would all appreciate knowing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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