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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2209788, member: 15929&quot;]Getting coins &quot;Slabbed and Graded&quot; is for serious collectors who are looking for liquidity in the market place. TPG&#039;s &quot;authenticate&quot; then grade coins for tamper proof slabbing. That is their primary mission.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slabbing a $30 coin will cost you nearly $60 at PCGS. The prices may be cheaper at NGC and cheaper still at ANACS or ICG.</p><p><br /></p><p>For SILVER EAGLES, the ONLY reason to have them graded and slabbed is to hopefully increase their resale value. Meaning, they&#039;d have to be PR70 or MS70 before it would be worth it to have them slabbed. The &quot;70&quot; grade rarely occurs with individual submissions or even 10 coin submissions since, IMO, it&#039;s really a &quot;gift&quot; grade that has little meaning other than some dealers want you to believe that the coin is &quot;Perfect&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other reason to have them slabbed would be to protect them from possible damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>A last reason for getting them slabbed would be if you intended on completely the series with slabbed pieces and were planning and starting a Registry Set with either PCGS or NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are no other reasons to have a Silver Eagle Slabbed and Graded since it can get VERY expensive VERY quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>With PCGS, you can only submit coins for grading if you are either a PCGS Authorized Dealer OR you are a Collectors Club Member. Collectors Club Memberships start at $69 per year and go up to $349 per year.</p><p>The lowest grading service available costs $20 per coin.</p><p>Each submission REQUIRES a $10 Handling Fee.</p><p>Each submission REQUIRES the YOU (the submitter) Pre-pay the return shipping and handling charges which is currently $19.95 for 1-4 coins which have a combined value of $1,000 or Less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, submitting a single coin to PCGS (after you&#039;ve already paid the CC Membership Fee&#039;s) would be $49.95 plus whatever it costs you to ship the coins to PCGS to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Al alternative would be to submit the coins through a PCGS Authorized Dealer but you&#039;d have to wait until that dealer was making a submission OR pay some up front fee&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>At your current level of numismatic knowledge, I wouldn&#039;t recommend that you have anything graded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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