What percentage of your coins are raw and slabbed?

CharlieB

I am including mint state rolls but not junk silver.

What percentage of your coin collection is slabbed?
What percentage is raw?

For me probably around .5 % slabbed and 99.5 % raw


I say that because most of my rare coins, such as early mint state
Wash quarters as an example, I still keep all mixed together in
plastic coin tubes in the safe deposit box and have no intention
of slabbing them.

- Charlie B -

Bikingnut

10 percent slabbed, 90 percent Raw. I have a lot of raw silver Washingtons that I have no intention of slabbing.

KlectorKid

25%

MrKelso

1% slabbed all the rest are naked.

nwcs

If you don't include junk silver rolls, mint and proof sets, then it's about 85% raw 15% slabbed for me. Maybe 90/10. And that's because I've sold a lot of loose coins this month. At the start of the year it was 99.90/0.10.

prooflike

About 5% slabbed, 95% raw.

Trime

98% Slabbed if you do not count 2 large mint bags of SBA that I put away several decades ago and my original childhood circulated US collection stored since the middle ages.

michael

wow charlie well it just goses tos how you if the prices of washgington quarters keep going up then many original whordes will come out ND THE POPS WILL RISE!! I think this might be the case for many coins post 1929 many many many

well i think most collectors if they have slabs it is for coins where they are mostly likely higher values and where the slab maximises the value of the coin to a really great degree!!

sincerely michael

one great post there!!!!!!!!!!

kieferscoins

90% slabbed by PCGS, 8% slabbed by others and 2% raw. You guys already knew that though.

Cameron Kiefer

flaminio

About 90% slabbed, the remainder in mint packaging. I don't do the 2x2 anymore.

dorkkarl

wasn't ther a poll about this a short while back?

ZERO percent of my coins are slabbed, 100% of them enjoyable.

K S

petertdavis

Value or head count?

I have a few thousand loose coins, stuff like wheats and random foreign stuff. So, probably 99% not slabbed if you count that way. OTOH, if you count value, it's probably more like 90% slabbed.

kieferscoins

<< <i>ZERO percent of my coins are slabbed, 100% of them enjoyable. >>



So slabbed coins aren't enjoyable? I totally disagree.

Cameron Kiefer

DoubleDime

99.9% "raw" and of course the rest "slabbed".

FatMan

Excluding Mint and Proof sets-- 90% slabs 10% raw.

99% enjoyable -- I have a couple of raw coins that I can't enjoy because when I pull them out of the deep recesses of my safe, all I can see are implements of a painful screwing.

I am very pleased that dorkkarl enjoys 100% of his coins. That is an admirable goal for all of us. I hope that he is not inferring that slabs are not enjoyable. That would certainly be a limiting point of view. Just think about all the great coins that are slabbed that some one with those views would exclude from their collections.

paigowjohnny

<< <i>all I can see are implements of a painful screwing >>



Don't we all have a few of those "jewels"

nwcs

Yeah, I learned my lesson on a few of those too. Will be selling some of them eventually.

fcloud

I'm about 3 to 5 percent slabbed.

DHeath

In my collection, 10% slabbed, and 90% raw. In my coins for sale pile, 90% slabbed, 10% raw. I prefer buying raw, and selling slabbed.

BIGDAVE

98% PCGS 2% NGC (99% PROOF 68 AND 69 ) ALL 1950 THRU 1964 98% CAMEO AND DEEP CAMEO

jdimmick

My personal collection is 100% PCGS slabbed,

the only exception is for a few misc low dollar coins I used to trade at club meetings, work, etc

Coinmonger

92% Raw 8 % slabbed

Of the 8%

65% PCGS/ 25% NGC/ 10 % ANACS

And I have one ACG slab.

Trime

Michael,
Reading your message re: rolls of washington quarters.
Not sure in message where the typo was in "whordes".
According to your previous messages in the coin business there is plenty of room for an extra "w" or "d".

coppercoins

Probably 99.75% raw, the rest slabbed. I have over a million coins, three of which were purchased in slabs and not removed because they are difficult to get out of the slabs, so I left them in there. All are overgraded, two PCGS and an ANACS.

Trime

Coppercoins,
Over million coins; WOW!
I presume with your handle that these are 1C pieces.
No one is going to walk away with your collection easily.
Must be interesting to look for varieties.

Mrpawn

Cant compare to Coppercoins in numbers.

Numerically about 10% slabbed & 90% raw

Value wise about 75% slabbed 25% not (Lots of fun coins that nieces are allowed to go through and build their own sets from. History lessons given with coins when they put up with it)


Jr

JamminJ

Lets see...

4 PCGS, 4 NGC and 1 ANACS = 9 slabs
Raw = ~5000 (those album sets, mint/proof sets, and assorted 2x2 - especially darkside - sure add up)
so about 0.2%

However, if you go by value the ratio is probably 15/85 % slabbed to raw.

-JamminJ

dorkkarl

<< <i><< ZERO percent of my coins are slabbed, 100% of them enjoyable. >> So slabbed coins aren't enjoyable? I totally disagree. >>

not meant to be implied. to each his own, so coins are potentially enjoyable whether raw, slabed, or glued to the bottom of a volkswagen beetle.

but i personally no longer enjoy coins trapped in plastic, period. i like to be able to see the edge, i like to be able to tilt the coin w/out the impairment of glare off the plastic, i like to be able to examine the surface under magnification w/out the impedence of scratches & scuffiness on the slab, i like to be able to just look at a collection & not be distracted by 2/3d's of what i see being plastic.

that's just me, but enjoy what you like. just be sure you've sampled everything, & can be sure you know what you like.

K S

coppercoins

Yes, the die varieties are fun, and I enjoy what I do. The million coins comes from a die attribution set of nearly 2,000 coins, 24 tube roll boxes full of tubed rolls (120,000 coins), another 48 boxes half full to full of rolls ready to sell (ave. 12 rolls per box) (28,800 coins), another 50,000 coins in albums, folders, etc., and the kicker, the sealed bags. I have over 90 sealed and once-sealed bags of BU cents, and another 25-30 bags of circ wheaties. 120 bags of cents is 600,000 coins. To top the bunch off, I have half a dozen pickel buckets half to three quarters full each of cents I've gathered over the years just to go through, and haven't had the time to go through them yet. Each bucket contains a little more than $150 in cents, bringing the total estimated number of coins in the buckets to around 100,000.

jom

Most of the coins I buy anymore are slabbed but if you want percentages it's not even close. Raw wins! The raw business strike sets of MS Wash, Kennedy, Roosy and Ike's pretty much overwhelms the slabbed coins. It's about 5 to 1 or so...roughly.

jom

prooflike

Wow, I don't think I even have the storage space for a million coin coin collection!

wallstreetman

Its not the quantity, its the quality! I have tons of high quality coins 80% slabbed by PCGS! If someone can move my 1000lb safe and its contents, then they can have it! The safety deposit box is hard enough!

coppercoins

As for me the quality has to be picked from the quantity - that's why I have the quantity. Out of all fairness, 3/4 of the cents I "have" will not be a part of the "collection" once I get to them and look at them. They will be sold or cashed in for more to look through.

Value? Well, I have roughly 1,000 coins worth $50 or more each. Of those, 100+ are worth $100 or more, and I have a handful worth $200 or more.

Rolls? Probably 350-400 BU rolls are wheats dating back into the 30s. A vast majority of the rolls I have are the more common dates, over 2,500 rolls are 1960-1962.

So yes, I am a subscriber to the fact that quality beats quantity, and yes, I have the quantity for now....until I can get through that quantity and find the quality that likely lurks within.

shirohniichan

It's about 95% raw and 5% slabbed, but it will soon be less slabbed (I haven't had time to crack out many of my coins yet).

zenny

<< <i>Probably 99.75% raw, the rest slabbed. I have over a million coins, three of which were purchased in slabs and not removed because they are difficult to get out of the slabs, so I left them in there. All are overgraded, two PCGS and an ANACS. >>



The math for these numbers it actually much more impressive. The percentage of raw coins is actually closer to 99.9997% raw, leaving 3 ten thousandths of one percent of your coins slabbed.

that said, i have quite a few bags and rolls of whatnot, as well as some albums that probably would make the percentage breakdown about 95% raw, 5% slabbed.

drsvenghali

97% raw, 3% PCGS slabbed (franklin registry set).

Nysoto

Surprisingly, about 15% of my bust halves are slabbed, although I have never submitted a coin and do not intend to, as most bust halves do not benefit from slabbing, also you cannot view the "third side" of the coin.

On raw uncirculated bust halves, I would only trust dealers Sheridan Downey and Mark Entman to grade raw busties as MS, from other dealers I would only buy a slabbed MS bustie from PCGS, ANACS, or NGC.

wallstreetman

I want to say thanks to the collectors of PCGS CERTIFIED COINS, YOUR THE ONES THAT KEEP THIS BOARD RUNNING!

KAJ1

75% PCGS ~~ 15% mint stuff ~~ 10% raw

Kevin

michael

trime......lol you are a good man and great collector!! a good sport and clever!! maybe i had a freudian slip there!!

sincerely michael

Aaron04

MS and PR coins would be 100% with about 99% of that being PCGS.The rest are NGC and ANACS.
Circulated stuff is probably about 95 % raw and 5 % slabbed.

66Tbird

2% are slabbed that account for 80% of the value.

I enjoy high end coins and need them slabbed,,,, because if I drop it, I don't worry about running it over fifty freakin times till an upright comes along that can pick it up for me!!!!!!

09sVDB

If you go by # of coins only, it is probably 5% slabbed and 95% raw.