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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 2471441, member: 80121&quot;]Again, if it&#039;s a common coin, I wouldn&#039;t send it in, but if it&#039;s a rare coin, I&#039;m more interested in it being authenticated, than graded. I have and Athenia/Owl coin that has the right silver content, the right size, and the right weight, but it&#039;s an expensive coin and therefore likely to be a target of the Chinese counterfeiters so I&#039;ll probably send it in the NGC ancients department.</p><p><br /></p><p>[I&#039;d crack out the coin in the NNC slab and those in details-slabs.]</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a lot of grading companies that aren&#039;t worth the money to send them to. TV shows are making up companies that sound like the real ones. One of the shows (the auction one) was pushing the gold Mercury dime as a first day grading and the company was NCG (?) guess they figured newbies or people who didn&#039;t pay attention would assume it was NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the beginning of the Grey Sheet, they rate TPG companies: PCGS, NGC, ANACS, ICG, and then everybody else. If you haven&#039;t seen this it is definitely worth a look.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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