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<p>[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 5415830, member: 116145"]Here's my two cents, I have purchased coins in slabs from PCGS, NGC, ICG and ANACS for years, but recently I was putting together a Standing Liberty Quarters set, low grade, and I bought some in slabs so I decided (while starting a second set in my Whitman album) that I'd have a slabbed set. I didn't want to spend a lot and I'm not worried particularly about resale (PCGS slabs have the highest resale value in the current market) so I wanted accuracy, inexpensive and simplicity. I submitted 18 coins to ICG - CoinTalk members can submit for a special economy rate of $10 per coin (I think it might be a 10 coin minimum, maybe not) otherwise it's still not bad, but you have to mention you are a CoinTalk member on the form. I had some coins I wanted "conserved" which means cleaning without damaging the original surfaces, those were an extra $5 each, then you also have to pay for them to ship back, insured, and for you to ship to them, insured. Total cost with everything for 18 coins, some conserved was about $250 with shipping expenses both ways and insurance. They guarantee the coins they slab are authentic and they guarantee their grade - all of the big 4 do I believe. I like ICG because I just downloaded the form, filled it out by hand and dropped it in the box with my coins and about 3 weeks later I had them back, graded. I felt the grades were very fair and that they definitely had a better eye than I did for the details. Others may have different experiences! I plan on submitting another batch of SLQs for grading in the near future to ICG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 5415830, member: 116145"]Here's my two cents, I have purchased coins in slabs from PCGS, NGC, ICG and ANACS for years, but recently I was putting together a Standing Liberty Quarters set, low grade, and I bought some in slabs so I decided (while starting a second set in my Whitman album) that I'd have a slabbed set. I didn't want to spend a lot and I'm not worried particularly about resale (PCGS slabs have the highest resale value in the current market) so I wanted accuracy, inexpensive and simplicity. I submitted 18 coins to ICG - CoinTalk members can submit for a special economy rate of $10 per coin (I think it might be a 10 coin minimum, maybe not) otherwise it's still not bad, but you have to mention you are a CoinTalk member on the form. I had some coins I wanted "conserved" which means cleaning without damaging the original surfaces, those were an extra $5 each, then you also have to pay for them to ship back, insured, and for you to ship to them, insured. Total cost with everything for 18 coins, some conserved was about $250 with shipping expenses both ways and insurance. They guarantee the coins they slab are authentic and they guarantee their grade - all of the big 4 do I believe. I like ICG because I just downloaded the form, filled it out by hand and dropped it in the box with my coins and about 3 weeks later I had them back, graded. I felt the grades were very fair and that they definitely had a better eye than I did for the details. Others may have different experiences! I plan on submitting another batch of SLQs for grading in the near future to ICG.[/QUOTE]
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