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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3741806, member: 15309&quot;]Try selling your coins, and you will quickly become a fan of TPG grading.&nbsp; Most people will not pay full value for a raw coin.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t matter how good your knowledge and grading skills are, when you sell raw coins, the number of people willing to pay full retail for the actual grade of the coin shrinks to a very small number.&nbsp; Having coins professionally graded increases your liquidity by bringing back all those collectors who don&#039;t have the same grading skills that you have back into the potential buyer pool. </p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, if you are in the Economy class of NGC grading (less than $300 value), the fee is $20 and the other costs of shipping &amp; handling usually amount to less than $5 per coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t consider $25 a ridiculous amount of money, and if you buy a raw coin at a discount price, all you have to do is ensure that the actual price of the coin once certified is more than $25 more than your purchase price and you have made a profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, I purchased this 1945-S Jefferson Nickel raw as part of a Capital Plastics collection and paid $10 per coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://imgur.com/XvD1x7Y" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://imgur.com/XvD1x7Y" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/XvD1x7Y.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>If it had come back MS66, I would have sold it for $35-$40 and broke even on the coin since I paid MS65 money for it.&nbsp; Instead, it came back MS67 and instantly became a $100 coin, netting me a nice little profit and providing another gorgeous premium gem war nickel for the market.&nbsp; The buying raw, submitting, and flipping aspect of coin collecting is very enjoyable for me since I no longer have big money to spend on coins.&nbsp; This keeps me in the game and I constantly get to see new coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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