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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2977241, member: 82322&quot;]You asked if it it is worth the money to “grade” an ancient coin.&nbsp; I think you mean having a coin slabbed and graded by NGC Ancients.&nbsp; The fee is $40 plus shipping for standard grading.&nbsp; NGC also has something called “bulk” for $20 per coin if you have 50 coins of similar type.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be “worth” the fee the slab must save you or earn you more than it costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will notice that few ancient coin dealers slab their wares.&nbsp; These dealers are mostly rational, and have concluded that they will not make back their slabbing fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you live in a part of the country where people only collect slabbed US coins you could probably do OK slabbing a few beginner coins like Window’s Mites and selling them to the US crowd.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also seen slabbed coins sell well if they grade MS 5/5.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most ancient coins grade F or VF.&nbsp; A VF ancient coin can be very nice.&nbsp; But many collectors have been told to buy the best coins they can afford.&nbsp; These collectors will avoid nice coins that have been slabbed below Ch XF.&nbsp; It will be hard to recoup the slabbing cost with F graded coins unless you have something popular, rare and commonly faked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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