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Do you prefer to buy your slabbed coins or "make" them?

relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm not talking about making them like the Chinese either. There is certain level of satisfaction in taking a raw coin and submitting it and getting the grade you were hoping for. Most of my PCGS coins are semi-made as in I cracked them from another slab.
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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Buy slabbed. It's not worth the risk, time, effort, and extra cost for me to slab stuff myself in most instances.
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ditto.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • oneor11oneor11 Posts: 208
    I think it's by far more fun to buy raw coins and have them submitted. However, I admit I'm not skilled enough to do that yet. I already got burned once. In order for the grading to be worth it, it would seem like it would need to be a relatively expensive coin- coins which wildly fluctuate based on grade...and that's just too much financial risk. I'm hoping to get to the SUmmer Session this year to take some grading classes.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like makeing them it saves me big $$$ if I can Cherry them with out the lable. But some of them you can't make and will need to pay the big
    $$$ as for mod coins I'll make them I like to look at rolls. But that is just me dum Type2.image


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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Buy them in the right plastic when I have felt the situation warranted it.
    I have only sent in (via dealers) 4 raw coins for certification, and have cracked out dozens to free them from their tombs.
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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have serveral coins that have ANACS photo certificates that I have submitted. That's about as close to raw without being raw as I can get.
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  • papabearpapabear Posts: 851 ✭✭
    I have had some good luck at NGC last year made an MS 70 2008 $10 gold Buffalo
    and MS-PF 70 2011 25th ANN ASE set all bought from the US mint image

    Papabear image
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've purchased some very good raw coins over the
    years and sent them to PCGS (only) to get graded
    and was very happy with the results. I have also
    purchased PCGS grade coins but in reality, you
    can purchase some very nice raw coins cheaper
    then graded ones and then submit them for
    grading !!!
    Timbuk3
  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    Because I collect world coins (and buy a lot of them from European and British auction) a high percentage of them have not been slabbed, so quite a few of them I have to "make" myself. However I really do prefer to buy them already slabbed and I don't pay up for raw coins due to the risk.
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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    Yes
  • BigDowgieBigDowgie Posts: 1,779 ✭✭✭✭
    Nothing better than a great Cherry and submitting! It's worth the slight gamble with the grading services. They get it right most of the time.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I cannot recall one coin that I bought slabbed unless it came in a collection that I bought.

    Have made all mine myself. Nothing better than the hunt and the results. That's whats
    so fun about the hobby.

    bob image
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  • GeorgeKelloggGeorgeKellogg Posts: 1,251 ✭✭
    I prefer to buy them already graded by PCGS, but I also understand the thrill of "making" the piece. I've done it all of the ways listed below, in addition to starting with a raw coin.

    1. Crossing over coins (I've done it with NGC, ANACS small white holder, ANACS blue label, PCI green label, and PCI gold label).
    2. Adding a famous provenance to a previously graded coin.
    3. Adding a rare variety attribution to a previously graded coin.
    "Clamorous for Coin"
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In doing my Complete Dime Sets I buy the coins I need raw or slabbed.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that I'm collecting vintage holders, I can't make them. image
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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Now that I'm collecting vintage holders, I can't make them. image >>



    I'll have a few broken vintage holders I can send you soon. (Coins not included) image
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  • GeorgeKelloggGeorgeKellogg Posts: 1,251 ✭✭


    << <i>Now that I'm collecting vintage holders, I can't make them. image >>



    I'm with you on that. I won't destroy a vintage holder.
    "Clamorous for Coin"
  • DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    Never submitted a coin to PCGS myself.

    However, I've just branched into a new series that has very few PCGS certified coins so I can guarantee I'll be submitting more.

    -D
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    -Aristotle

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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It depends on the coin. Definitely more satisfaction in the hunt and getting it slabbed to boot.

    WS
    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭
    Have done both many times.

    While it is more enjoyable to submit raw and 'make' the coin myself, it is usually more cost-effective to buy already slabbed.

  • golfer72golfer72 Posts: 3,588
    I have never submitted a coin. I like to let other people pay all those crazy fees and then I buy their misgraded coins on the cheap.
  • TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
    90% of my best coins were bought raw and submitted by me to Pcgs. To date I have bought 2 Trade $'s raw that graded 62 and 62+ at Pcgs for under $300 each final cost graded. Sold them for $4000 total. I usually don't buy graded coins because I don't like paying full retail prices.image
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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,991 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Buy slabbed. It's not worth the risk, time, effort, and extra cost for me to slab stuff myself in most instances. >>




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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In the two series I collect I've never seen a raw coin that I've deemed slab worthy. I may just suck at ferreting out gems amongst raw coins. MJ
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    >>>I'm with you on that. I won't destroy a vintage holder. <<<

    Not me. If I buy a variety in a vintage holder.....off it goes to get reslabbed in a attributed holder! image

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