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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7405519, member: 100459&quot;]I bought an 1895 Eagle for $675 in 2009.&nbsp; It was raw.&nbsp; I hadn&#039;t been collecting a lot back then.&nbsp; A friend of mine suggested that if I wanted a gold coin to go to a independent dealer that he had dealt with for a while.&nbsp; I bought two gold coins.&nbsp; The other coin was a 1904 Double Eagle Liberty Variety 2 for $1,275.&nbsp; It&#039;s been a while, but I bought them.&nbsp; I told him I would like to have them graded.&nbsp; He told me he was going to a show that weekend and he could probably get it graded cheaper if he took the coins with him.&nbsp; It took a while, but when I got them back the Double Eagle came back &quot;detailed - Obverse scratched and the Eagle was graded MS-61.&nbsp; I don&#039;t fault the dealer.&nbsp; If I recall (I&#039;m 73 and memory is sketchy at times, so my wife says.) He said he could probably get my money back, but I decided to keep them for many reasons.&nbsp; One is, that I learned from my purchase and grading and the other is the grading.&nbsp; No dealer is perfect in grading a coin.&nbsp; If you want your coin graded, send it to a NGC or PCGS or one of the lessor known grading companies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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