Collectors poll: how many coins do you grade?

RedTiger

A poll for collectors, how many coins have you graded in hand during the past 12 months?

These would include auction lots viewed, coins taken out of a dealers case or box for examination, friends or family bringing coins over for evaluation. Certified coins examined count, as long as the person is thinking in terms of establishing their own grade for the coin. Bulk lots or roll searches count, if the coins were graded and not just checked for key dates and scarce varieties. This would not include images on the Internet, unless the coin was examined in hand.

tightbudget

I honestly don't know...

lonelyp

All of mine.

Unfortunatlly most only grade PC.

Trime

Interesting question: As a collector, I have made no effort to count but the number is somewhere on the bottom of the list. Many of my dealer friends can run multiple boxes of coins in and out of slabs in a few minutes and grade accurately in the process. For the newbies, the best way to do hands on grading is to attend the auction lot viewing sessions. For those who want to learn the process, I strongly recomment the ANA summer session grading classes. There you will have the invaluable opportunity to be taught by the experts ( many are the senior graders at the major TPG cos) and view lots of coins.

TwoSides2aCoin

I'd have to look it up, but somewhere in the vicinity of 140.

All of them were widgets, too...except for that MS68 Cheerios Sacagawea.(which, if you read the thread titled " RARE COINS ? " , it is not.)

Thanks for asking though. I was trying to figure out why I didn't have any spending money.

When you say how many have I graded, I am talking about how many I've had graded by PCGS. If you just want to know how many I've determined a grade on it is in the thousands.
I looked at 47 silver Roosevelt dimes before I went to bed last night. None graded over XF40. A few were bodybags due to rim damage.

dorkkarl

10000 or less, totally guessing but i do look at a he11uva lot of coins

K S

ricko

Actual critical grading only applies to those coins I am considering buying.... those I review casually - I automatically assign a 'quick' grade mentally - but that could and does change frequently if I decide to purchase... and give it closer scrutiny. Slabbed coins receive a quick evaluation for accuracy of assigned grade (i.e. plus or minus or spot on). Cheers, RickO

Mercury10c

None.
I just look at the holder.

Seriously, probably a few hundred.

BECOKA

I put about 500 but now that I think about it probably closer to 1000.

Newcomp103

Way too many that had issues!

garsmith

0 in the last 12 months.

60 total graded

another 1-2 hundred that I will send in later!

RedTiger

Who said over 50,000 and over 250,000? Are the sock puppets trying to skew my poll results?

Roll searches tend not to bother grading the coins, except a "nice" pile of maybe 2% to 10% that are really super quality. This is a collectors poll. Even most full time dealers don't grade that many, and many pro graders fall short of 250,000 in a year.

53BKid

RedTiger, nice poll, thanks.

Remarkable balance across the spectrum on this poll.