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Worth submitting to PCGS?

dsessomdsessom Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭✭✭
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A friend gave me his late mother's coin collection, and I was wanting to get opinions on if these are worth submitting to PCGS for grading.
There are several proofs in cellophane packaging with "Littleton Coin Company" on them which I have never seen, and a cardboard 1982 Lincoln cent set with all MS examples sealed in plastic.
Thank for any help/opinions!

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Best regards,
Dwayne F. Sessom
Ebay ID: V-Nickel-Coins

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  • Murphy2Murphy2 Posts: 8
    They are very nice...but also very common. I don't believe any of them would be worth the price of grading.
  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,286 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No.

    Lane
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  • Billet7Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭
    NOPE.
  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,079 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PCGS would love you for that submission, but the person who foots the bill to pay for the service will hate you upon seeing how little they are worth.
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like they have absorded enouph PVC that they will not grade IMO.
    At least on my monitor I'm seeing a yellow green haze on them.
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  • stevendanielsstevendaniels Posts: 378
    Leave um!!
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  • BaseballAbsBaseballAbs Posts: 2,621 ✭
    Looks like about 12 cents. PCGS grading will cost you about $18 dollars each plus shipping, return shipping and handling. Your call!
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  • centmastercentmaster Posts: 504 ✭
    I shudder to think what Littleton originally charged for that stuff.
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please contribute your money to a worthwhile cause like:

    Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
    Breast Cancer Research Foundation
    National Military Family Association
    Americare
    Action Against Hunger
    Salvation Army
    Christian Foundation for Children and Aging

    Drinking Kool-Aid should be a crime.

    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • ponderitponderit Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Move them into better protection and give them to a little kid and try to spark some interest in collecting
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  • Halfhunter06Halfhunter06 Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    its better for you to place the min nice holders and save your money.
  • tbarrecatbarreca Posts: 299 ✭
    You've gotten excellent advice from those who've preceded me. I recommend that you follow it.

    These coins are almost certainly not worth submitting.
    Tony Barreca

    "Question your assumptions."
    "Intelligence is an evolutionary adaptation."
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,609 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's a little challenge or a grading test and you can take it for what it's worth. (it's just my opinion)

    Grade the coins from your own ability. Then go to eBay and find PCGS graded specimens ONE grade lower than you think you have. Buy them, but be frugal and watchful. There's a good chance you could learn a lot about grading coins this way and it won't cost you as much as the submissions, membership, postage, insurance, and humility.

    All due respect,

    Joe

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  • tbarrecatbarreca Posts: 299 ✭


    << <i>Here's a little challenge or a grading test and you can take it for what it's worth. (it's just my opinion)

    Grade the coins from your own ability. Then go to eBay and find PCGS graded specimens ONE grade lower than you think you have. Buy them, but be frugal and watchful. There's a good chance you could learn a lot about grading coins this way and it won't cost you as much as the submissions, membership, postage, insurance, and humility.

    All due respect,

    Joe >>



    Great post, Joe, and excellent advice!!!
    Tony Barreca

    "Question your assumptions."
    "Intelligence is an evolutionary adaptation."
  • barbershopperbarbershopper Posts: 1,201
    No. There are enough of these laying around in rolls to supply every collector in the USA 100 times over.

    JT
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    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't bother with the nickel. I would only send the lincolns in if I was real sure they would grade 67 or better.
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