PCGS Prices

My spec (speculation) - Most of the raw coins out there, unless you know what you are doing..will have a tough time getting into plastic in the future so to say. As most of the older coins have been tampered / slight cleaning etc in some manner.

I forgot to also say that in my opinion, I do not beleive that most older coins have been tampered with or cleaned as stated above...quite the contrary as to what I come across...a small percentage only.

Yes, slabbed coins are higher in price than raw for sure!! Yeah, I'm not worried what I paid as I've looked at thousands the last 40 years. I looked them over tonight again and they all look OK, some better than others, but, on the average nice 64's. I buy from this seller monthly and have done so for some time now. He was connected to my mentor who I started with in 1968. Prices are deffinately up and no doubt will stay there indeffinately if not forever..... By the way I forgot to respond to Alladin on the prices of 65's.....they were selling from $160 to $170 depending who you knew and slabs were as usual commanding a better price. Thanks Morgans Dad for the heads up! Have a good time collecting!

1893, I have been searching for a particular type set and have a few mentors,ONE whom I believe is a PCGS snob,(LOL) I have for this set, been looking for only slabbed coins, I NEVER would believe I would be looking for slabs as I have ALWAYS collected raw and loved it, I feel if you are an educated buyer, can grade the coins you seek, and know the Vams well, that you are looking to cherry pick you should do well.

I have found a few things out I did not plan on, the price of AU is steadily climbing, which is good as a silver collector, and the slabs I am checking out are also not getting any cheaper, I just paid $220.00 for a PCGS slabbed MS 64+ Morgan,( Anna looks good)!! THIS is not getting better, however I am a true hobbyist/collector and sometimes the things we wish to try and put together, are costly, Be Well, Mike.....

all I ever look at is 1878 Morgans and have noticed the price has dropped considerable amount in the past year on 64's and 65's in both NGC and PCGS slabs. I am talking the price has dropped about $300.00 in MS-65. I guess everyone is buying junk silver and have no money to buy the nice stuff right now so its definitely a time to buy some of the coins you couldn't afford last year at this same time

when I started collecting Morgans I looked at the price guides also and that is why I focused on MS-64 Morgans. The p[rice from 63-64 wasn't that much different but from 64-65 was usually quite a big jump in most dates, so I decided the MS-64's was where the biggest gains could be made. Of course at the time I didn't really know much about coin grading or much about what it meant (just knew it was graded 1-70). I had done my research before buying though and did focus on PCGS and NGC coins. This worked out pretty well until silver prices started climbing so fast, that is why I say I think everyone is buying junk silver and all the 64's and 65's are way under what they were as little as a year ago, with 64's still losing less ground than the 65's have

this is from June 30th 2008 http://classic-web.archive.org/web/...l.aspx?c=744 The actual prices the coins sold for at that time will differ from their prices show because that is retail and they sometimes sold for a hundred dollars less consistently but anyway that is the only date I can seem to find

I sold a few duplicates and said I wasn't going to buy any coin unless I needed it for an upgrade and then all of a sudden VAM-80's came crawling out of the woodwork and since I have so much trouble finding a VAM-80 (in any grade) I did buy all of them I could find. I am also getting ready to upgrade my camera to a dSLR camera and that was the reason for selling my duplicates but I spent quite a bit more than expected on these coins so I am going to have to wait a week or so on the camera