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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 7653292, member: 13650"]I've submitted small batches of stuff over several years to NGC for my registry set and others. You have to fill out the forms right and dot your Is and cross your Ts. But, the process makes sense so you get your own stuff back in the end. </p><p><br /></p><p> As soon as it's graded and finalized you can click on the slab numbers to see what the grades are or wait for the box to show up. During Memorial Day weekend it took about a week to get the box back after they shipped my latest batch. The boxes are very discreet and well organized. You can watch guys opening them on youtube. It's not the cheapest thing in the world to do so you have to be sure you really want something graded if you send it in. The extra handling fee per tier and shipping adds on top of the service cost per coin.</p><p> I appreciate the re-holder service because that is fairly cheap and it absolutely sucks having a very nice coin in an old slab that's so beat up from being sold a hundred times and handled at who knows how many shows until the plastic is so marked up you can't get a good picture of it. People are hard on slabs. If a coins for sale in a brand new fresh slab it's worth extra to me. They offer scratch resistant holders. I always get those. When my stuff comes back it's photographed and then the slab goes in a plastic binder page or Intercept Shield slip that protects the slab.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 7653292, member: 13650"]I've submitted small batches of stuff over several years to NGC for my registry set and others. You have to fill out the forms right and dot your Is and cross your Ts. But, the process makes sense so you get your own stuff back in the end. As soon as it's graded and finalized you can click on the slab numbers to see what the grades are or wait for the box to show up. During Memorial Day weekend it took about a week to get the box back after they shipped my latest batch. The boxes are very discreet and well organized. You can watch guys opening them on youtube. It's not the cheapest thing in the world to do so you have to be sure you really want something graded if you send it in. The extra handling fee per tier and shipping adds on top of the service cost per coin. I appreciate the re-holder service because that is fairly cheap and it absolutely sucks having a very nice coin in an old slab that's so beat up from being sold a hundred times and handled at who knows how many shows until the plastic is so marked up you can't get a good picture of it. People are hard on slabs. If a coins for sale in a brand new fresh slab it's worth extra to me. They offer scratch resistant holders. I always get those. When my stuff comes back it's photographed and then the slab goes in a plastic binder page or Intercept Shield slip that protects the slab.[/QUOTE]
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