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Do you have a coin or coins you prefer to keep raw that would grade well?

Morgan13Morgan13 Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭✭✭

I have a decent accumulation of them. I am not saying record breaking or top pop but just nice coins you prefer to enjoy raw?
Feel free to post them. Im sure many would be interested. I can only post the obverse. Software problem but the reverse is just as nice.

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  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If I find a nice toned modern proof, then it gets sent in.

    If I think a attractive coin in high grade, I will take a shot.

    Got alot of really nice coins that likely fall just short of break even that hang around.

    Feel responsible to future collectors in a way.

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a few, even a couple that I started to fill out the submission form and have them in flips with all the info on the flip. After a thorough second review I decided my heart was driving the thought to submit and never sent them in.

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  • Do you have a coin or coins you prefer to keep raw that would grade well?

    Actually, that would be 90% of my collection. :o

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  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unless they less MV vs slab cost - no.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,363 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Possibly. Never really scrutinized them that well. Probably will stay raw as well even if grade able. No care to get on that treadmill.

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We have a member in our coin club, "Sandy" who has a number of these quality type sets and collections in folders. A local accountant friend who has a lot of coins that should be certified, he keeps telling me he'll get them graded sooner or later. In my opinion it is vital to get coins certified if they are of significant value.

  • calgolddivercalgolddiver Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gorebels I agree the half cent folder is quite impressive. I do not believe I have seen a comparable collection! congratulations on the set!

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  • nagsnags Posts: 831 ✭✭✭✭

    I have quite a few GSA dollars that are ungraded (not the common date 1882-1884s) that would grade well. I also have a type set in the Dansco album, but nothing in there is a crazy high grade.

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m waiting for @Eddie to post, he has some amazing early US raw coins...

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  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Heres one I have raw. any large scratches are on the plastic slide in the old album its in.

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lermish said:

    @Walkerguy21D said:
    I’m waiting for @Eddie to post, he has some amazing early US raw coins...

    You're probably going to be waiting for a while...

    Oops, chose the wrong one.
    @Eddi was the forum member I intended.

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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 27, 2025 7:23AM

    I got a few....

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gorebels said:
    Most coins will slab w/o "details." Tough set to complete:

    by chance did you happen to check for any varieties? :)

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a number of really nice coins that will stay "raw" for as long as I own them. I learned how to grade long ago and don't need a TPG to agree with me on every single coin I own.I will never understand WHY people will send in for grading well-circulated common-date coins where the cost of submission is MULTIPLES of the value of the coin. Money to burn for that but me trying to get ten spot out of a raw coin the Redbook says is worth $20 is like pulling quills out of a porcupine.

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  • gorebelsgorebels Posts: 121 ✭✭✭

    @johnny9434 said:
    by chance did you happen to check for any varieties? :)

    Nope, set was mainly completed in the early 1960s.

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No - unless raw junk box material I don’t invest on expensive raw coins. No go for me.

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WaterSport said:
    I got a few....

    You made yourself a custom album! 👍 I kinda did the same thing when I was a kid with Scotch tape. 🤣

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gorebels ... wow! I've been collecting early copper for decades and I've never seen anything approaching your Half Cent collection... inspiring!

    @Eddi ... where to begin?!! Your 1804 LC is spectacular! Ditto the 1794 Half-Cent, the 1791 GW, Fugios... others...

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  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've got a bunch of raw 20th century coins in assorted albums that would grade well.

    Here are a dozen examples:













  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 30, 2025 11:55AM

    @SkyMan - I have some Washington's that look like yours in a Dansco. Terrible pictures but you get the idea.

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,889 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 1, 2025 10:59AM

    Stuff only worth slab cost or less - raw coin inventory.

    My raw coins are inexpensive material (markup accordingly) in 2x2 whose role is help pay expenses of the business. I don’t buy expensive raw coins.

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  • gorebelsgorebels Posts: 121 ✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:
    @gorebels ... wow! I've been collecting early copper for decades and I've never seen anything approaching your Half Cent collection... inspiring!

    One more to push in the hole… a low grade 1796. And I will do it before I die.

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,889 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 1, 2025 10:10PM

    Some raw proof Franklins inherited from brothers estate. However might send in and assign grading cost as inventory cost, expense shpg , fees etc.

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