Fee's For Sending Coins In To Be Slabbed

good 1 tim
if need some to go in on sending in 10 to get a low $ e-mail me I have 4-5
I will send in with you?
Maybe Anacs?

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Originally posted by Tpatna

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind amac44. I cannot send anything in until after the new year due to the upcoming holidays.....I am broke...boo hoo

Tim

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ME too

I joined the ANA so I could have an account and send coins to NGC. It looks like PCGS charges between $49.95 (Silver Membership) and $199 (Platinum Membership) annually. I'm not sure, but I think you still have to pay the submission fees per coin (someone correct me on this one, as I hope I'm wrong!). I think the population reports would be cool to get, but you can go on Heritage Auctions and they show population reports for both PCGS and NGC on specific coins (at least I think that's what they show!).

Here is the link to the prices to submit to PCGS and then the different levels of membership (I would call them to find out the details on how few coins you can send in and the costs associated with them):

http://www.pcgs.com/grading_list.chtml (prices)

http://www.pcgs.com/join/index.chtml#silver (membership levels)

I received 4 sets of the gold and silver anniversary sets today from the mint. I didn't open them (like I did the first one I received) and am now trying to decide on which service to send them to for grading (maybe I'll send two to NGC and PCGS and see the differences?). Since there are only 20,000 of these sets, the special label that goes on them should make them pretty valuable some day (I hope!).

ICG is not one of the top two companies, and as such, I don't think you get as much value for their slabs. That is what I have gathered from what I read on this forum. NGC and PCGS are the top two, with ANACS and ICG next. But I would search around for threads on ICG to make up your own mind on them.

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Originally posted by Tpatna

As far as I can tell, as long as I'm not in any hurry, I can get a coin slabbed for $18.00 at PCGS and $16.00 at NGC...or....I can just buy the same coin already slabbed on ebay and sell the Raw one I have. I have seen some coins on ebay with a "Buy it Now" cheaper than the price to have it slabbed.

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In this case, I would recommend that you simply buy a slabbed version of the coin you're talking about, if you want the coin in a slab. That you would even consider doing this kind of tells me that you're really not in love with any particular facet of the coin that you already have in hand, if it is that easily replaced. Submitting coins is kind of a pain...meeting a minimum order size, filling out forms, packaging and shipping, waiting and waiting, and then maybe not even getting the grade you were hoping for. So if the coin is not that important to you, it's just a lot easier to get one already slabbed at the grade you want.

If you have a dealer submit, you can avoid avoid some of those hassles. Dealers I have had submit coins for me have always charged only the basic grading fee, no surcharge or shipping or anything like that, partly because it was piggybacked onto a submission they already had going in. It was just a lot easier than doing it myself, but I'm lazy.