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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 26527464, member: 15309&quot;]Glad someone resurrected this thread, I missed it the first time.&nbsp; I just checked my NGC submissions page and it came to 671.&nbsp; I&#039;m no longer a member of PCGS, but between them and ANACS it is probably another couple hundred.</p><p>So my answer is somewhere north of 800.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say that I consider my &quot;homemade&quot; Jefferson War Nickel Set which currently ranks 20th in the NGC Registry one of my finest numismatic achievements (see link below).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/229605/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/229605/" rel="nofollow">Lehigh&#039;s Homemade War Nickels</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My costs which include purchase price and grading costs are under $1K while the resultant price guide value is almost $10K.&nbsp; There are many collectors who are critical of coin grading, but it provides some very important things:&nbsp; authenticity, protection, problem free assurance, and increased liquidity.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first two are rather obvious, you get the guarantee that the coin is not counterfeit and the TPG holder provides a way to ensure preservation of the coin for the foreseeable future.&nbsp; While some collectors obsess about the grade, the TPG grade doesn&#039;t end that debate, but it usually will resolve the issue about whether the coin is problem free or not, which should be concern to every collector.&nbsp; The last thing, liquidity, is the one that most collectors don&#039;t consider.&nbsp; It matters not if a coin is raw or graded, the grade of the coin is the same.&nbsp; The problem is that in the real world, very few collectors will pay the price guide value of a raw coin.&nbsp; Once that coin is graded, the number of collectors who will pay the price guide value increases dramatically and makes selling the coin at that price relatively easy.&nbsp; It is important to note that the act of grading didn&#039;t change the grade, it simply increased the number of people willing to pay the price of that grade, which is an increase in liquidity.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I can make the argument that a single coin can be submitted for grading several times, receive different grades, yet still be correctly graded each time, but that is a different discussion for a different day.&nbsp; For this discussion, I would like to say that coin grading is like batting in baseball.&nbsp; Nobody bats 1.000 and everybody strikes out from time to time, but you can&#039;t ever hit a homerun if you never step up to the plate.&nbsp; And btw, chicks dig the long ball.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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