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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1635800, member: 4626&quot;]Which would only matter if I ever intended to resell the coins.&nbsp; Which I have no plan to do any time in the definite future.&nbsp; If I cared about recouping expenses on the sale of my coins I probably wouldn&#039;t have them graded in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Chinese Panda I got an MS 70 on I could very well recoup my grading costs on were I to ever sell it, but why would I want to?&nbsp; If I wanted the money instead of the coin I wouldn&#039;t have bought it in the first place lol... I&#039;d much rather have the coin in my hand than the money I&#039;d get for selling it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well I understand where you&#039;re coming from; most people have coins graded for purposes of making them easier to sell later, but that&#039;s not my motivation for getting these coins graded.&nbsp; It&#039;s more to:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Satisfy my curiosity as to what a professional&#039;s opinions are on the grades</p><p>2. Making it easier to establish a value on the coins, for insurance purposes and such</p><p>3. Preserving them, and making them more convenient to store</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest if recouping my costs on a future sale were more of a concern I&#039;d probably go with PCGS or NGC, as much as I like to defend ANACS (I honestly think their customer service is far better, and they have far less barriers to entry than the &quot;Big Two&quot;, regardless of their apparently lesser reputation when it comes to grading, which I honestly don&#039;t think they deserve, but well I can&#039;t control public opinion much).&nbsp; But well for what I want grading for, ANACS is a lot cheaper and faster than any other reasonably reputable TPG, plus they more accessible partly due to the fact they require no membership of any kind, and are in my local area, and frequent coin shows also in my local area.&nbsp; So say what you will about their reputation (and I think they deserve a far better reputation than they seem to have) but they suit my purposes very well.</p><p><br /></p><p>And well to make a long story short, I buy coins because I like having the coins, not because I see them as an investment, so I couldn&#039;t care less if I&#039;ll ever recoup the costs from purchasing them and sometimes having them graded (the vast majority of my collection are raw coins).&nbsp; I very rarely sell any coins in my collection, and on the rare occasions I do I usually spend the money on more coins (usually what I sell are &quot;extras&quot; basically).&nbsp; What they can potentially sell for in the future, raw or graded, will by my heir&#039;s problem after I die (and I kind of hope he won&#039;t sell most of them either and instead pass them on to his heirs, but that&#039;ll be his prerogative).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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