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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2797201, member: 59677&quot;]The general rule is of course it has to be worth more in the slab than Raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on which company you pick it&#039;s going to run you from $10 to $32 for a coin valued up to about $300. Plus postage and Insurance both ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>Use PCGS&#039; online photograde and be honest in your grade estimates. We all love our coins to be higher grade than they are, but when it comes to grading if you undervalue them and they get lost in shipping you don&#039;t get the full value back. And if you overvalue them you&#039;re just paying more to have the service done than it&#039;s worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can then go out on eBay and check actual sold prices - not listings people can ask anything they want - and see whether that 1921 Morgan in XF sold for enough to pay for grading.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The economics change if you can qualify for bulk grading</i></p><p><br /></p><p>That can be as little as $5 a coin and dealers submit large numbers of say American silver eagles hoping to get a few seventies that pay big bucks. The 69s they sell for spot plus a few $ and any other dogs they don&#039;t even bother with. But that&#039;s the numbers game and not one you&#039;re playing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you ever wonder how somebody can sell an ms65 1950s Lincoln cent in PCGS plastic that&#039;s where it came from: somebody had a couple rolls bulk graded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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