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imagine you live in australia , truly it is the lucky country !!! but not for people into hobbies like coins etc. i do, it costs AU$ 1.50+ per litre for petrol and i cannot get to the airport for less than 25 or $50 minimum, now imagine you lived in SD and wanted to get to your nearst coin show in VA or Maryland ? its just not going to happen . . . Learning to grade online is great to what purpose no dealer is going to accept my opinion over what he wants and even if i could grade well it most likely would not be a coin i was interested in or could afford i have been to a boat show and a gun show in fort lauderdale USA and their is nothing i have seen here that is even a 1/4of that scope !!! and then the virus . . . truly we got TWO british cases ; f'in 2 !!! the gov't shut down the entire area, roughly about 5 million people for THREE days... penalities started at 400$ now they are at AU$1,400 and you know they are serious !!! truly it is a FACT four police officers worked together during the day and after work got together and ALL got fined !!! my nearest coin show would most likely be cancelled and if i tried to attend anyways i ould be stopped and fined but it is still five hundred miles LoL... penalties are now depending on circumstances in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, but online is so much easier EXCEPT the exchange rate is 75% of AU$t o US$ plus a conversion fee ; PLUS A GST of TEN % so roughly if i buy your old coin for US$500 it is going to cost me about AU$850 to collect it and when i go to sell i pay a 28% CGTax on the markup (Profit), minus 50% so its just 14 percent LoL..

i would just like to say a bit about third party grading , it has forced a lot of the bad influences out of the coin collecting industry and we are all the better for that. the laws of supply and demand means we need buyers with money interested in our coins, its essential for the hobby's future. and TPG does give many people confidence that a coin is real and in good condition. Remember that people compete in registry sets and pay a premium forthe ultra high grades, but you gotta remeber to that office politics play a part for graders like most other jobs. imagine a company have five graders who each grade 500 coins per day. After a week the boss looks at the stats, : grader 1 gave out 35/68's, 912/69's and the rest 70's, similar for grder's 2 and 3 and 4 and grader five (for similar coins) gave out 4990/70's and five 69's... How long would the boss keep this person on the books ????? their is a time limit on each submission and that is why you must pay extra for the rarer coins , if your coin is worth 99$ you might get a minute of the graders time. but if your coin is worth 22,000 smackaroos your not going to just get a minute of any graders time, your going to get multiple opinions and arguments before a slab is sealed around a coin that is worth a difference of 7,000$ between one grade or another. because the management knows their are competitors out their in the marketplace and those pesky little CACstickers;) on a different note : i love and hate you all !!! i live in a small place and i also almost live under a rock , i cannot learn to grade coins , in my location i have like five coin shops and recently decided to visit one. i looked and looked at that dealers junk, and i mean junk ; truly he had modern coins from papua new guinea in his display case and THREE unslabbed 1/4 gold coins i asked to see other stuff and was told everything was on display , to give him a purchase all i could find was a price catalog for $47 !!! ( did not buy ) i showed him one of my slabbed coins i had carried with me for the trip and he replied " you know those things can be faked ", i looked at his three little gold 1/4 coins and thought ' not as easily as those raw coins you have there ' ! ! ! i just thanked him and left and i was half way home when i realised his most likely business model was to buy coins off of unsuspecting suckers... i cannot grade coins since in my location their is no market and no opportunity to interact or learn to grade and that just sucks, so i am so jealous of you who can walk out your door to a coin show or coin dealer etc. My location gets ONE coin show per year !!! and that is my envy fetish and why i hate you and i love you for participating online ; so a huge thank you also. all i can do is chat online and enjoy my 70's knowing my decendents will get something worth something into the future, now i am going to go drool over my slabbs if that fool dealer had of engaged me and treated me as a customer with respect i would have easily put ten thousand dollars through his little shop if he had shown any interest in trying to find out my interests , now i just buy online since their is no other way ; but i do plan on other local dealer visits but make an appointment... enjoy your personal investment

here is why you should get these coins graded and slabbed. firstly these coins are obviously in high grade condition, true you have no idea if those airtites have ever been opened in the past but these coins are obviously high grade. next is that they are PROOF coins and not bullion or mint state MS coins. these coins came to you for zero dollars , so how can you lose money by having them graded let us assume each coin is worth a hundred dollars , depending on family dynamics if these coinscame from your parents you might value the $100 at fifty dollars (j/k) but ssome people have issues LoL. but these coins came from your grandmother so to you they are probably worth $500 !!! so who cares about the fifty dollars for grading to future generations their family value should be even higher. when it comes to selling no one can argue with the slab grade realistically. it is becasue of con men / women and such that grading has become so essential. but what the slab does is tells you nd everyone else that the coin is real genuine and that it is exactly what it is, their is no disputing its minting etc like some dealers would try to mislead you on if they felt they could save buying money. you will know what you own and be able to easily gestimate its value online 24/7 forever ! ! ! your insurance company will be happier also, and if you have found a very rare modern proof it ill be statd on the holder. even if three coins comeback as 67 or 68 it easy to find someone to crack them out of the slab and replace them in the airties and sell as raw coins. another factor is everyone has an opinionof the best basketball or football teams etc. , grading takes much of those rguments aay and protects yourcoins the best way possible. you got to understand that all the other comments here are most likely fromcoin fanatics ho have spents many MANY thousands of hours gaining their knowledge with much experience in travelling and buying and selling , do you REALLY want to invest yourself into all of that hopeyou enjoy your coins and continue to find coins exciting !!!