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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4765719, member: 105098&quot;]People get coins graded and encapsulated for many reasons and a whole lot of those reasons have nothing at all to do with ROI.</p><p>Some do it because they just like the coin or it holds some sentimental value and they want to preserve it at the time but makes no financial sense to have spent the money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Others get a coin graded because they are a novice and think it&#039;s what they are supposed to do to increase its value to a collector, which isn&#039;t true.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people spend thousands grading common new business strike cents hoping for a MS68 or better out of boxes of new cents and sending in their best finds, while a lot of them don&#039;t make it, if one does its a payday. The rest sell for less than the fees.</p><p><br /></p><p>People do it for various reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as grading companies go, I think just about everyone will agree PCGS slabs sell for more than the others, more trusted and desirable to collectors than any of the others, but NGC is close to them.</p><p>ANAC&#039;s is cheaper but sells for less, however their variety attribution game is strong where the others will only attribute certain varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever their fees are, double it at least for shipping costs both ways securely, and that&#039;s the ballpark per coin which is why most submissions are a handful of coins at a time to spread out the total costs over a few coins at one time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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