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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1368127, member: 112"]Rob - </p><p><br /></p><p>While I understand what you are wanting to do, there is much easier, and cheaper way, of doing it. And you don't have to send any coins in.</p><p><br /></p><p>All you need to do is go to a coin shop, or better yet a coin show, and start looking at slabbed coins in person. When you look at a coin completely ignore the grade on the slab. Just look at the coin. Then assign the grade you think it is. Then look at the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>That will tell you exactly the same thing that you sending a coin in will tell you. But it won't cost you a dime. And by doing it that way you can look at coins slabbed by all of the different companies and compare them to each other, to see how each of them grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>You learn by looking at coins, not by sending coins in to grading companies. And the idea is to learn <b>before</b> sending coins in to grading companies. Not afterwards. That way you don't waste money or send in coins that you should never have sent in to begin with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1368127, member: 112"]Rob - While I understand what you are wanting to do, there is much easier, and cheaper way, of doing it. And you don't have to send any coins in. All you need to do is go to a coin shop, or better yet a coin show, and start looking at slabbed coins in person. When you look at a coin completely ignore the grade on the slab. Just look at the coin. Then assign the grade you think it is. Then look at the slab. That will tell you exactly the same thing that you sending a coin in will tell you. But it won't cost you a dime. And by doing it that way you can look at coins slabbed by all of the different companies and compare them to each other, to see how each of them grades. You learn by looking at coins, not by sending coins in to grading companies. And the idea is to learn [B]before[/B] sending coins in to grading companies. Not afterwards. That way you don't waste money or send in coins that you should never have sent in to begin with.[/QUOTE]
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