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Message:: [QUOTE="Paul M., post: 3745800, member: 73165"]Good question.  Cost isn't that much of a concern for me here, but for this particular coin:<ul> <li>NGC standard tier would be $40.</li> <li>Sear would be $45 or $55 depending if I wanted the "regular" or the "detailed" certificate.</li> <li>PCGS doesn't look like they offer this service.</li> <li>ANACS would be $29, unless I snuck in under a special.</li> <li>ICG doesn't list ancients on their website, but they've been known to slab pretty much anything they feel they can actually guarantee their opinion on.  Based on their fee schedule, it looks like it would be $19.</li> <li>HJB does it for free, based on the article [USER=99531]@Nvb[/USER] posted.  (Super cool, and what a public service to the numismatic community!)</li> </ul>All of these are plus shipping and insurance to and from. I don't have any experience with ANACS or ICG, so that's actually a primary reason I made this poll, but it looks like NGC and Sear are the front runners, anyway (both currently tied at 7 votes, with 0 for everybody else). I kinda wonder if anyone would change their vote if they knew HJB would authenticate it for free.[/QUOTE]