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Message:: [QUOTE="Old Texas Reb, post: 2930482, member: 91220"]The major grading services do provide one invaluable service-weeding out most counterfeit, altered, artificially toned and cleaned coins submitted to them.  With the Chinese fakes becoming almost impossible for even experienced dealers and collectors to detect, this alone IMO is worth the submission price for frequently faked issues. When you've been around coins as long as I have, you acquire a sixth sense that tells you if a coin is really BU or that the toning doesn't look right, especially "rainbow" toning.  I remember attending the TNA show in Ft. Worth in the early 2000's and looking at a guy's case with several rows of rainbow toned Kennedy halves in no-name slabs with the toning on BOTH sides of the coin!  I just chuckled a bit and walked on.  The previous poster is absolutely right about one thing-proper coin show etiquette.  You don't knock another dealer's coins even if they are overpriced and/or overgraded or put your briefcase on top of his display case.  You also need to keep all 2 X 2 boxes or individual coins you are looking at on TOP of the table in plain sight![/QUOTE]