if you only have a few coins to be graded then it probably wouldn't be worth paying the membership fees for NGC or PCGS unless you have some high valued coins that you are thinking about selling sometime soon. I think with PCGS and NGC if you sign up for one or two of their memberships you get a voucher for like 5 free gradings which almost pays for the membership fees but you have to decide if it is worth it to you. Just remember if PCGS or NGC deems the coin has been altered or has a problem in anyway you will be out the submission/grading fees and the coin will not be put into a slab of any kind it will be sent back to you in a 2x2 flip (known as a body bag) and you still have to pay submission fees and shipping both ways and get the coin back the same way you sent it, at least with ANACS if they deem the coin to be altered or a problem in any way they will still slab the coin and grade it but there will be a notation of the problems the coin has on the label




















