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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2488039, member: 76194&quot;]Once they train us ancients folks like they did US folks, they&#039;ll make a killing off of us.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Let&#039;s do the math</b></span>: Regular ancients cost $25 to submit to NGC, and if they deem your ancient coin to have a value of $300 or more (even if it doesn&#039;t really have that value raw and from where you get your coins), it is $45 to grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>* I currently have 34 silver ancients in my collection</p><p>*7 of them are either above $300 easily, or close enough that NGC will say they are $300</p><p><br /></p><p>So that&#039;s 27 coins at $25 and 7 coins at $45: <b>That&#039;s $990 I have to pay NGC to grade 34 coins. </b><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>For that kind of money I could buy 5 or 6 more Roman Republic denarii. </u>Instead now I have to sink that money into plastic slabs because my coins are now &quot;junk&quot; without the slab. By the same token, if you were to buy them slabbed already, that&#039;s more that $1000 you paid for plastic,&nbsp; not to mention the &quot;premiums&quot; on slabbed coins the dealer will charge you on top of that...which will probably mean I would have had to pay <b>$1,500</b> more for the same 34 coins than I did. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>________________________________________________________________</p><p><br /></p><p>Now let&#039;s add the sticker price on top of that math. Wings charges me $12.50 per coin to look at them and decide if any of them should get a sticker, so that&#039;s an additional $425 expense.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now my 34 coin collection will cost me <b>$1,415</b> extra to make them market acceptable...not to mention the added premium I would have had to pay if I was already buying it slabbed and stickered from a dealer to begin with. If I were to estimate that, the amount would be so large I could have bought a Julius Caesar portrait denarius for that kind of money. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s just me with 34 coins. Some of you who own 500+ coins would go broke sending them in to get graded, or having to buy them with the premium of the plastic and sticker in the first place. There is no way you would have the collection you have today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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