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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2083682, member: 31533&quot;]It may seem &#039;risky&#039; to spend money to have it graded, but with coins of great value, many times they fetch more once they are authenticated and certified with a grade. Even one grade point can make a huge difference in realized prices. There are a number of dealers who are reputable ones who will be able to see the coin is genuine or not and cleaned or not. But there are others who may tell someone it is less valuable or indicate it doesn&#039;t really hold the value it could just so they can purchase it. Grading with a reputable company can generally take those factors out of the equation. Some dealers will help a person submit with the idea that if it comes back graded at such and such a grade, it helps the dealer be able to sell the coin for a marketable price that is fair, and that way the dealer as well as the person bringing in the coin can profit better. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are showing this and have other equally untouched items of age and what looks to be collectability, you should (or your wife) should not be cavalier with them. Some items may look to be not worth much, but in the right hands may be identified as quite valuable. </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, always bears repeating: NEVER EVER clean a coin you&#039;ve found (especially in these circumstances) so that the value it has can be retained.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will give you an example. I had a friend give me 4 coin boards, each filled about 1/2 to nearly full of coins for cents between 1790s and the 1940s. I took them to dealers to sell for him after looking at wholesale pricing for these items based on what I thought the grades were (assuming they were not cleaned or had damage). But unfortunately the person who owned them had actually cleaned almost all the very valuable coins and so the dealers either didn&#039;t even want to be bothered with these or gave a much lower quote. I did take the lower amount for them, which I gave to him, because he wanted them sold, but he destroyed a huge amount of value by touching them inappropriately and cleaning the coins, etc. while he owned them. He accepted that as a fact he couldn&#039;t change... in fact, he at that point said yes, he had done all that when he was younger. So, what could he change?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a coin or coins which have a possibility of bringing in $$$ for your wife then why toss money in the garbage can by just selling to the first person who might take it and not putting more effort into it? </p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion, not writing this harshly <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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