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Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
#1. I was buying 40% Silver Bicentennial Red pack on eBay several years ago, trying to find a 68 Ike. I noticed a couple of the Kennedy halves didn't have any marks on them so I just set them aside. A couple of years later, I was putting together a submission of Ikes and decided to finally send in these Kennedy Halves that… -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
Maybe not the #1 all-time in total dollars but CERTAINLY the #1 all-time percentage gain (25000% or so) on a coin due to getting it slabbed by PCGS. Raw 1971 DDO on eBay for about $6 turned into the single finest known 71 DDO on the planet: -
Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
Back in the day I bought a 1993-D dime raw from a dealers 2x2 folder for about $0.35 and submitted it and it came back PCGS MS66FB (2/1). With grading fees I had about $18 into it, and sold it on eBay for $420. Well, this actually isn't my biggest score, my other one is confidential. Whats yours? Later, Paul. -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
I bought a BU Roosevelt 46-64 Album from a board member about 5 years ago for about $200. Once I got around to looking at it I pulled one coin out to send in for grading. That coin still stands today as a pop 1/0....1947S MS68FB. I bought a busted up 1954 mint set on ebay for $70. I could see that the quarters and half's… -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
I have a roll each of 1955PDS lincolns. I wonder if I have any 67s or 68s? Wouldn't that be a nice surprise. I have had them since the mid 80s. -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
Bought an 1836 CBH on ebay for ~$60 after shipping and a $15 coupon. Sent it in and paid for variety attribution, an O-121, R-5+ and sold it for almost $3k. -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
This was a fun one. A customer of mine bought a coin from a dealer for about $10,000 and a year or so later desired to sell it off. He consigned it to me and asked me to try to net him at least his cost back or close to it. I thought the coin had a good chance to upgrade so I submitted it, got the upgrade and then sold it… -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
On my first (and only) submission, I picked out five 1994-P lincolns from a roll I bought on ebay and made two MS68s (20/0 before my submission, 24/0 now), and three MS67s. $4 roll = $1480 book value in 5 coins -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
Those are great stories and I loved reading them all. My best story lately involves an ebay purchase of a MS67 clad quarter in a no-name holder(I cant remember the company and I have never heard of them anyway). I saw that the coin was exceptional despite the holder and I purchased it for $10. I cracked the coin out and… -
Re: Tell us about your #1 all time score on a freshly graded PCGS slab
<< <i>As you say back in the day before PCGS I bought a 1924-S Merc out of a mail auction sight unseen for $50. This coin was described as ChAu. I bid the 50 which at the time was a strong bid for the coin in that grade. I won...got it in the mail and it was a beautiful coin with nice tone. I showed a dealer friend the…
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