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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2266614, member: 15929&quot;]With PCGS, you&#039;ll first have to either &quot;piggy-back&quot; (Not recommended) or join some level of their Collectors Club. Minimum level is $69 per year. Piggy Backing requires a good LOGISTICAL Approach since your coin may be indistinguishable from your host submitter and disagreements could occur.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you joined the PCGS Collectors Club at $249 per year, you&#039;d get 8 FREE Submissions which would more than cover the costs of 8 &quot;Standard, $32 per coin Submissions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the bad news.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each submission to PCGS &quot;REQUIRES&quot; an additional $10 (per order) handling fee. No if&#039;s and&#039;s or but&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>PLUS, you must assign (declare) a &quot;value&quot; to each of the coins on the submission AND pay a return shipping fee based upon that assigned value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Minimum Return Shipping Fee is $19.95</p><p><br /></p><p>So, regardless of how many coins you submit and what level of submission, each PCGS Submission will cost a minimum of $29.95.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a single coin submission at the $32 base level (value not to exceed $3,000 per coin), you&#039;re looking at a $61.95 submission.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are other service levels such as &quot;Modern&quot; and &quot;Economy&quot; which go for $16 and $20 with restrictions on no more than $1,000 value per coin or $300 per coin , respectively, but that $29.95 still chews into your overall costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your best bet is to find a local PCGS Authorized Dealer and submit through them &quot;IF&quot; their charges to you do not exceed the base PCGS Rate.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC will accept submissions from validated ANA Members at base prices (whatever they might be but they are cheaper than PCGS) but you do not get tracking privileges.</p><p><br /></p><p>Submitting coins for grading to ANY of the TPG&#039;s is simply not for the casual coin collector as a LOT of money can be thrown right into the toilet. Even after the fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ONLY time a coin should be submitted for professional grading is if its true Professionally Graded Value exceeds it&#039;s purchase+grading costs value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything less is just a waste of your time and your money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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