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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1287231, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;ve got news for you, it&#039;s really hard to tell <u>without</u> the plastic ! And you don&#039;t want to use a microscope to try and tell that difference. You use a 5x glass and nothing stronger than 5x when grading.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, there isn&#039;t.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then buy them already slabbed. But know this before you do. Prices for 70 slabs have been dropping for about 7 years now. They are cheaper today than they have ever been. And tomorrow they will be cheaper still. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When you say &quot;they&quot; what do you mean ? Do you mean slabbed coins in general or do you mean just 70 coins ? Doesn&#039;t matter really for any coin in a slab can and will still tone. The best do or even hope for is to slow that toning down. And you do that by practicing proper storage.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The cost for grading varies greatly depending upon which grading tier you submit the coins under. And yes, the more valuable the coin the more it will cost you.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s absolutely not true.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, they submitted thousands of them all at one time. The TPGs have a bulk submission program where dealers will submit thousands of coins at the same time. But the submitter can also specify that only those coins that will be graded as 70 will be put in a slab. All the other coins are returned to the submitter without being put in a slab. And you have to realize that the dealer also pre-screened each one of those coins and that they only sent in the ones they thought had a good chance at getting the 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, if the dealer sent in 2,000 coins; then he probably went through 10,000 to pick out the best 2,000.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For a collector, with modern coins, no it isn&#039;t as a general rule. There are a few exceptions like doubled dies and certain varieties. But other than that, unless you are very, very good at being able to accurately grade yourself and pick out only those that will grade 70, you may as well forget about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even if you are very good and can pick out those 70&#039;s, well you better sell them right away. Because down the road they are going to be worth less and less.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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