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ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
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I am biting the bullet and am going to start having coins graded by PCGS and NGC. My main question is what should I watch out for when submitting coins? Do I grade anything that could be 64 or better?
Do I focus on the issues that will only bring a premium? Or do I have the coins graded that could be top pops for that particular issue? Is there a general rule that a certain coin value justifies the fees? Thanks in advance! -Dan
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    If you want it protected, place it plastic. None of the other things are of any consideration in my book.

    I try to only buy things in plastic that are top pop though. That however has little meaning since so few world coins are in plastic. .
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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    I would like to start having my better aluminum pieces slabbed, but some of them are only $25 coins. The better ones are worth much more, but I am worried that I would be spending $17 or more, depending on the company I decide to use, with no benefit for doing so. Do you think that aluminum coins would degrade over time after being encapsulated?
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  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    We can all argue about slabbing coins and whether it's better or not, but if you want the most money for them when you sell they got's to be in plastic.

    And I'm sure many members will argue it doesn't matter but they would be wrong, check out the highest auction prices paid for many issues of world coins and almost inevitably they will have been slabbed when sold. I even slabbed a bunch of 20th C. farthings over the past two years as I upgraded my raw coins. All of them slabbed at 63 or better which is not a big deal, but $5 coins sold in the slabs for $25-50, so even on the bottom end I did not lose the slabbing fee. If you put a mid-grade common uncirculated coin up at auction raw, you'll be lucky to get 1/2 of catalog price for it, but slabbed all the ones I watch go for full catalog and sometimes much higher.
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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭


    << <i>If you want it protected, place it plastic. None of the other things are of any consideration in my book.

    I try to only buy things in plastic that are top pop though. That however has little meaning since so few world coins are in plastic. . >>



    I would totally agree , the finest collections of world coins have never seen slabs , in my experience a lot of world coin collectors have an aversion to slabbing , entombing they call it.I don't think resell value comes into it as you'll rarely see these coins for sale publicly.
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