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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AtlantaMan, post: 25404957, member: 158885&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have done all I can to whittle down a collection of about 15,000 coins to about 400 which I think, using a grading phone app and Red Book, have a value of $100 to around $1,800 each. It has taken me about 150 hours to get here, and I now need professional help as I can&#039;t tell if the coin has been cleaned or the difference between MS60 and MS61+</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to sell them to a coin dealer. Rather, my objective is to have the dealer do a basic cut - something like....&quot;Take this pile and slab them (or use GreatCollections to sell them, etc.) and take this pile and sell them on Ebay or a similar online coin forum.&quot; My overarching goal is to extract the highest, market value that I can rather than sell them to a dealer at a lower, liquidation rate. I have time, so that&#039;s not an issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently visited a local dealer and he explained that if he recommended slabbing, he &quot;could help me with that.&quot;&nbsp; He does use PCGS, but my experience been they are good but pricey.&nbsp; My preference would be that if the recommendation was to slab them, then they would go to GreatCollections where I have the option of various grading services at a discounted rate and they take it from there.&nbsp; Additionally, it would be cheaper to ship unslabbed coins to GreatCollections, and as they are going to wind up there anyway, I might as well have them slab it rather than my local coin dealer and save some shipping cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>My local dealer indicated it would take &quot;hours and hours&quot; and the going rate was $250 an hour. That seemed on the high side to me, but as I am new here, I don&#039;t know. What would be a reasonable hourly rate?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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