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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome! I can't imagine you would offend anyone by posting a few coins a week for grading opinions, etc.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 .... to the Community! We will be glad to render opinions on your coins. Just post each coin in it's on thread as multiple coins in the same thread lead to confusion. Please crop and properly orientate your pics. I wish you had came here earlier and I hope this turns out good for you!  |
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Well thank you ............
to KenKat, I wasn't sure if posting this many was acceptable, I appreciate your answer stating that they would not be too many.
to Panzaldi, it certainly wouldn't be 3 to 5 a day, more likely 3 to 5 a week if that. And thanks for the tip about a free optimizer, I'll have to search out where that's at unless you have another tip for me on it's location.
to Westernsky, thank you, I will be sure to only post a single coin at a time, crop and orientate correctly. And I'm sure it will turn out good for me. The worst is if all my grading was off a lot and my coins have far less value than I thought, but even then, the education will more than make up for my loss of coin values and hopefully make me a better grader.
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Pillar of the Community
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One coin per post,front and back and any close ups if needed. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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.....the education will more than make up for my loss of coin values and hopefully make me a better grader. I call the coin mistakes I've made over the years "tuition". I've done some doozies the past 60 years! |
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Canada
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And thanks for the tip about a free optimizer, I'll have to search out where that's at unless you have another tip for me on it's location. If you click on "new topic" you see "free image optimizer" below "Upload image" beneath the box for entering text. |
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, the membership would be happy to evaluate your coins, giving you our opinion on grades, as to value that comes down to what someone is willing to pay for a coin, and what someone is willing to sell it for.. Price guides are just that, I consider any online pricing just a starting point.. one of the best price guides I can recommend is ebay, just type in the coin and grade you are looking at, then click on sold items, then scroll through there and find something comparable,. Keep in mind there is a technical grade, or net grade, and then there is eye appeal. And eye appeal counts for a lot.. Usually an unattractively toned ms-64 coin, will sell for less than a nice clean example.. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The real coin value is what you can sell the coin for minus expenses. The NGC and PCGS price guides are for graded coins and the prices in the guides are Inflated above the typical selling price. Raw coins will typically sell for less than graded coins. If you want to know the value of your raw coins, the best sourse would be using ebay past realized sales of raw coins in similar condition/grade. Sell some of your coins as it will give you a true picture of their value and make you a better buyer. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Price guides on PCGS and NGC websites are intended to apply for coins graded by those companies. Most CCF members agree those prices are "high retail." You can probably buy most PCGS and NGC-graded coins at somewhat lower prices than the guides show. Looking forward to seeing some of your dollars! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This forum exists for the reason you want to use it. Have fun!!
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What I don't know is whether or not any of these PCGS bid or ask values are un-slabbed raw values, or are all the values at PCGS or NGC only for professionally slabbed coins. They're for their coins only. Quote:
And if all values you see on line are only for PCGS and NGC slabbed values, then how are un-slabbed coins valued?
Depends what it is. Some coins they're just a little lower such as common date common grade morgans, other coins there can be a rather significant difference especially series that are heavily faked. Quote:
even the polished, cleaned, whizzed, dipped ...... Dipping done properly is perfectly fine and undetectable. I wouldn't lump that with those others especially when whizzed and polished is about the worst thing you can do to a coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I certainly appreciate all the comments to my post and the answers to my questions so far. I will try and post the first few of my 250 plus Morgans and Peace dollars today. I have another question that I hope there are some tips for. What lighting is best? I have a pretty nice Panasonic 16 MP digital camera with a 60X zoom, and I have a small table top camera stand that can point straight down (I bought that to take pictures for ebay sales). But I have noticed that some pictures are so sharp that it almost makes coins look as though you were looking at the real coin instead of a picture, and other photos not so much. Any tips on lighting to make the coins really pop and show their full luster or lack of it, and true toning if any. I'm going to experiment with different lighting before I post today to try and get the closest to true pictures I can. So, any tips? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There's a whole forum dedicated to taking pictures with people much better than me at taking pictures: http://goccf.com/f/81It takes lots of experimentation to find a setup that works. Then to try to be able to recreate it as needed - which is something I've found is hard over time. |
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Forum Mom
United States
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Post as many as you want! This forum is dedicated to learning and helping each other.  |
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