Free Tool
Is your coin worth grading?
Run the math first.
Grading fees, membership, handling and insured shipping stack up fast — often to $60–$100 for a single coin. This calculator totals the real all-in cost for your batch and tells you, plainly, whether certification is likely to pay for itself.
Fee presets reflect published schedules checked mid-2026. Services revise pricing and run promotions constantly — confirm current rates at pcgs.com, ngccoin.com, or anacs.com before shipping anything. Every field below is editable, so you can plug in exact current numbers.
Your submission
What the coin sells for today, ungraded. Use sold listings, not hope.
Sold price of the same coin at your conservative grade estimate.
PCGS Collectors Club from ~$69; NGC from ~$25; ANACS none required.
Membership cost is split across this many submissions.
Insured, round trip, whole batch. $25–60 is typical for modest values.
The verdict
All-in cost per coin
Value added per coin (certified − raw)
Net result per coin · whole batch
Cost breakdown
| Grading fees | — |
| Membership share | — |
| Handling | — |
| Shipping & insurance | — |
| Total, whole batch | — |
Why one grade point changes everything
Illustrative shape, not a price chart: for most classic series, value climbs gently through circulated grades and steeply through mint state. It's why the break-even math is unforgiving on ordinary coins and generous on genuinely high-grade ones — and why an optimistic grade estimate is the most expensive mistake in the process. Always price your conservative grade from sold listings.
How to fill this in honestly
Raw value: search sold listings for your coin ungraded and use the middle of the range — not the outlier that got lucky. Certified value: look up sold prices for the same date in a holder at the grade you conservatively expect; if you're torn between two grades, use the lower one, because grading services are torn too and the fee is the same either way. The links below open the sold-listing searches most people need.
Pull your comps — sold listings, real prices
As an eBay Partner, I may be compensated if you make a purchase.
→Sold: raw uncirculated Morgan dollars →Sold: PCGS MS64 Morgan dollars →Sold: PCGS MS65 Morgan dollarsSwap in your own series in the search box once you're there — the sold filter carries over.
For the full reasoning behind the math, read Is It Worth Grading a Morgan Dollar?, the fee deep-dives for PCGS and NGC, and Raw vs Graded for the cases where slabs earn their keep.