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Message:: [QUOTE="PassthePuck, post: 7879949, member: 98916"]Odds are, they kept you Dime because it had color, and sent you one that had already been cleaned in their stock.  They probably are going to sell it to another collector that uses their service a lot.  I have always had second thoughts on sending my coins in to be graded.  My concern is that they would not send me back my original coin. Plus, I think the grading is determined by how much money you spend with them!  Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of MS66's but not a whole lot above that?  Once they grade coins in the higher MS bracket, the value of that initial coin probably drops because more coins within that MS grading and investors with an MS69 don't want to see their coin devalued because someone has a higher grade. I have 100's of flawless pennies, dating from 1940 to 2021.  But I'm not sending one in. The last thing I want to do is pay money to have it graded, and then it comes back with a "Cleaned" grading. As you all know, tinted coins with color can fetch a higher price.  All my coins look like they just came off the production line....not one scratch!  Okay, maybe this one I will post here has a scratch. Here's an example.  I found this in a box of pennies I bought at the bank.  It might have been cleaned, but not by my hands.[ATTACH=full]1358671[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1358672[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]