Time To Bring This Forum Down A Few Notches. Post A Slabbed Coin Not Worth The Slabbing Cost. 😫

OAKSTAR

From years ago, testing my nonprofessional grading skills with the professionals.

Mr_Spud

My modern AU58s match that description. All these are 58s and are part of my circulated slabbed type sets. I have more than this that didn’t have TrueViews that I haven’t gotten around to photographing yet. These are very cheap yet hard to find because they are worth less than the slabbing fees. The first one shown I just picked up at the mailbox store today, I bought it off eBay for a lofty $15. It’s great cheap fun for me to focus on finding these for a while after completing my much more costly Circulated 19th Century Type Set w/o gold. Much friendlier to my bank account 🌞

TwoSides2aCoin

From gradeflation to coin degradation.
No photo, but it's a 1999 Lincoln cent. I was sure it was a wide am. So now I have an AU cent worth a cent in a PCGS holder. It's like a battle scar.

TwoSides2aCoin

Well I have evidence

OAKSTAR

@Mr_Spud- Yours were obviously intentional to achieve your 58 goal. Not easy to do with moderns. 👍🏻

Unlike @TwoSides2aCoin and myself and our battle scars! 😫

@TwoSides2aCoin- You didn't post it here on the board for opinions before submitting it?

CoinHoarder

TwoSides2aCoin

@OAKSTAR said:
@Mr_Spud- Yours were obviously intentional to achieve your 58 goal. Not easy to do with moderns. 👍🏻

Unlike @TwoSides2aCoin and myself and our battle scars! 😫

@TwoSides2aCoin- You didn't post it here on the board for opinions before submitting it?

I'll get a photo. I typically don't ask the forum for opinions on submissions. I like to pay and then hear how silly I am.

OAKSTAR

@CoinHoarder- That'll work.

OAKSTAR

@TwoSides2aCoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:
@Mr_Spud- Yours were obviously intentional to achieve your 58 goal. Not easy to do with moderns. 👍🏻

Unlike @TwoSides2aCoin and myself and our battle scars! 😫

@TwoSides2aCoin- You didn't post it here on the board for opinions before submitting it?

I'll get a photo. I typically don't ask the forum for opinions on submissions. I like to pay and then hear how silly I am.

Don't feel bad. I did the same thing....................again! 😂 🤣

TwoSides2aCoin

I can't imagine how many reprocessed steel cents have been submitted.

asheland

Before you say anything, yes, it is gold and it’s like 500 bucks worth of gold or whatever, but, the reason I slabbed it was that I wanted to have all three strike varieties graded in matching holders…

Normally, I would advise against grading a standard bullion Sovereign…

I will admit, it looks great in the holder, the True View is awesome, and I am happy with the results.

jt88

Not sure if it worth the grading cost or not. I think that’s lowest graded coin I have. The next is vf details.

Mr_Spud

I just bought this beautiful AU58 for $9.95 🌝

braddick

OAKSTAR

@braddick- I'd say those most definitely quality! 👍🏻

Some_of_it

Pewter America’s First Medal.

airplanenut

😬

CoinHoarder

gumby1234

@TwoSides2aCoin you sent in 2 coins one came back wide am the other didn't. Didn't you notice that they weren't the same spacing between the A and the M?

MFeld

I fear that this could end up being a very long thread.🫢

😉

lobo54

Anything dated after 1945.

BillJones

That would be just about every modern coin I have in my registry set.

I used to pay $10 to $20 for them. The catalog value of the coin in the slab was lucky if it was worth $5.

Now days, I can't find the new issues, like Washington crossing the Delaware, that have been added to NGC Registry type set at the shows. I can find them on places like eBay, but they are selling for $75. I have the coins in my Proof sets, but I'm not going to pay that kind of money for them in an PR-69 slab.

TwoSides2aCoin

@gumby1234 said:
@TwoSides2aCoin you sent in 2 coins one came back wide am the other didn't. Didn't you notice that they weren't the same spacing between the A and the M?

I said, I will post a pic. I've probably sent more wide am cents to pcgs than most. At one time I owned and submitted 6% of all 2000 wide am cents they'd graded. 😳

See the dark stains obstructed the view and I completely spaced out the designer initials being close ( the other PUP ). Duh.

JohnnyCache

hfjacinto

While I have a few, these 2 below are the best, not only did the coin cost the slabber at least $15 each, but there was also the slabbing cost. I picked up the first 1 for $9.62 (with free shipping)

And this one for $11.90 shipped.

johnny9434

@OAKSTAR said:

@TwoSides2aCoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:
@Mr_Spud- Yours were obviously intentional to achieve your 58 goal. Not easy to do with moderns. 👍🏻

Unlike @TwoSides2aCoin and myself and our battle scars! 😫

@TwoSides2aCoin- You didn't post it here on the board for opinions before submitting it?

I'll get a photo. I typically don't ask the forum for opinions on submissions. I like to pay and then hear how silly I am.

Don't feel bad. I did the same thing....................again! 😂 🤣

@OAKSTAR said:

@TwoSides2aCoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:
@Mr_Spud- Yours were obviously intentional to achieve your 58 goal. Not easy to do with moderns. 👍🏻

Unlike @TwoSides2aCoin and myself and our battle scars! 😫

@TwoSides2aCoin- You didn't post it here on the board for opinions before submitting it?

I'll get a photo. I typically don't ask the forum for opinions on submissions. I like to pay and then hear how silly I am.

Don't feel bad. I did the same thing....................again! 😂 🤣

@OAKSTAR said:

@TwoSides2aCoin said:

@OAKSTAR said:
@Mr_Spud- Yours were obviously intentional to achieve your 58 goal. Not easy to do with moderns. 👍🏻

Unlike @TwoSides2aCoin and myself and our battle scars! 😫

@TwoSides2aCoin- You didn't post it here on the board for opinions before submitting it?

I'll get a photo. I typically don't ask the forum for opinions on submissions. I like to pay and then hear how silly I am.

Don't feel bad. I did the same thing....................again! 😂 🤣

I have as well....

bramn8r

What happens when you think you have a 1969-D No FG

bramn8r

I thought this was t least MS65

bramn8r

This is an RPM-1, which doesn't appear to be a recognized variety for PCGS

PerryHall

I was at a medium sized coin show about 30 years ago and a dealer had a common date buffalo nickel in a AU58 PCGS slab. He had a sign that said "$7 The cheapest slabbed coin that you'll find at this show." I thought it was pretty funny and I still remember it. It looked like a flashy gem that someone submitted thinking that it would get a high MS grade.

Shurke

Here's one I submitted myself several years ago. 1929-S DDO dime. It's a low pop variety (mine is pop 1/8). Graded out at VF-35, though at the time I thought it might get an XF-40. PCGS guide has it at $40, so after grading and attribution, it's definitely worth less than the cost of slabbing.

ElKevvo

Sometimes there is a reason...I have a grading set if 1879-S Morgans and for the lower grades I have to submit as everyone else is smarter than me and knows not to pay a grading fee that is equal to the value of the coin! One day when the lower grades ones are back in the market I am sure someone will comment 'Whoever submitted this was a dummy!'

K

OAKSTAR

@ElKevvo said:
Sometimes there is a reason...I have a grading set if 1879-S Morgans and for the lower grades I have to submit as everyone else is smarter than me and knows not to pay a grading fee that is equal to the value of the coin! One day when the lower grades ones are back in the market I am sure someone will comment 'Whoever submitted this was a dummy!'

K

I guess there are multiple reasons why people submit coins for grading. One might be for sentimental reasons... A boy and girl looked down on the ground and saw a penny at the same exact time. They looked up, saw each other and fell in love! 😍 🥰

OAKSTAR

I was just reminded to post this one. Thanks @Steven59