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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4765053, member: 10461&quot;]By the time you factor in all the fees and shipping and insurance both ways, figure you&#039;re gonna spend around 50 bucks to get a coin certified.&nbsp; Maybe a little less if you have something that qualifies for an &quot;economy&quot; tier, but fifty bucks is the general rule of thumb I use.&nbsp; (I send in a lot of World coins, which have to go to PCGS under their Gold Shield tier, which is a bit more expensive.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the coin something you&#039;d be &quot;upside down&quot; in as an investment if you added another 40-50 bucks to your cost?&nbsp; There&#039;s the question.&nbsp; The next question is whether or not that even matters to you, or whether it will matter anymore 20, 30, or more years down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you just want it slabbed, of course, that&#039;s something different entirely.&nbsp; I have a coin off at PCGS right now that cost me about four and a half bucks, and which probably catalogs for less than that, but I&#039;m spending fifty bucks to slab it simply because I want it in a slab, to add to my collection (which happens to be almost all slabbed coins).&nbsp; It makes zero sense from an &quot;investment&quot; point of view, but it&#039;s a more sentimental than sensible decision in that particular case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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