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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 296330, member: 68"]You were lucky.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most modern sets are worth more busted up than intact but you can't send in random sets for grading and have much chance of profit. Most of the big companies which do this have machinery to bust up the sets. They hand separate the culls and put them into circulation and they creme out the best 1% or 2% to send in for grading. What's left goes into rolls and is actually sold at a profit even at wholesale. Some of these companies have the facilities to retail the run of the mill coins but most are more likely to sell them at ask to the TV shows or promoters. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the creme that comes back from the grading companies is not extremely valuable but it is all profit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Almost all the premium coins are being preselected by the submitters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 296330, member: 68"]You were lucky. Most modern sets are worth more busted up than intact but you can't send in random sets for grading and have much chance of profit. Most of the big companies which do this have machinery to bust up the sets. They hand separate the culls and put them into circulation and they creme out the best 1% or 2% to send in for grading. What's left goes into rolls and is actually sold at a profit even at wholesale. Some of these companies have the facilities to retail the run of the mill coins but most are more likely to sell them at ask to the TV shows or promoters. Most of the creme that comes back from the grading companies is not extremely valuable but it is all profit. Almost all the premium coins are being preselected by the submitters.[/QUOTE]
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