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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 1363866, member: 23692&quot;]Well, from grading seminars held by the same top-level folks who do the actual grading (I&#039;m talking the top 2-3 TPG&#039;s on each side of the border) .. they say that they average from 17-22 seconds per coin while grading (for grade/authenticity only, not necessarily varieties).&nbsp; If you extrapolate from that, you are paying an absolute unknown person, with unknown skills/talent, and with no standardization across the board, between $3500 - $4000 an hour to get his opinion.... an opinion with no real explicite warranty or guarantee that the 66 in your hand wasn&#039;t a 63 or 64 a year or so ago.&nbsp; My opinion of TPG&#039;s is that my time would be better spent (and money saved) by just standing by the toilet, flushing 20 dollar bills down the drain.&nbsp; I know how to grade all the coins in my collecting niche, I have informed my heirs the value of the coins and who to contact with my demise ... why do I need an opinion encased in plastic?&nbsp; Don&#039;t you think that your $3000-$4000 per hour could be better spent going to a grading seminar, buying some good books to build up your reference library, joining a top-notch collector organization, or going to coin shows and looking at hundreds and hundreds of coins so that you can get your &quot;grading eye&quot; into shape?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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