General Opinion On When To Grade A Coin

I look up values here
http://www.numismedia.com/rarecoinprices/fmv.shtml
I use PCGS photo grade to determine grades.
https://www.PCGS.com/photograde

I put my best example in a 2x2
My second best in a folder
And keep about a roll of each year/mint mark of my best coins in tubes.
The rest go back into circulation unless there is a market for them on eBay.

For instance pre '83 cents have copper value so I save them or sell them in bulk.
Same with wheat cents.
Nickels I do the same as above.
Dimes I only save a few BU examples.
Quarters I do not save unless the are BU, although some have suggested saving choice Au examples as attrition is making some years scarce.

I have never sent a coin in for grading. A coin must have a significant value over what I paid for it to justify the $20-$50 it costs to get a coin graded. That has not happened for me yet. I have even found modern coins that I have graded and believe are worth $75+ that I have only paid a few dollars for but for me I don't need to pay someone else to tell me that and take all the value out of the coin. That might change 10-20 years down the line when I am thinking of passing the coins on to my heirs if they have no knowledge of values but I hope my record keeping will aid them more then wasting money on grading.

It takes an expert collector to play the grading game with TPG's. I am not there yet.

Grading and return shipping fees have to be justified against the potential value of the coin after slabbing.

It seems to me that the general opinion here in the CCF for potential value is in the $100 to $150 region.

Much better if you can learn to grade for yourself. I have been collecting for probably 50+ years, none of my coins are slabbed, despite some of them valued in the $thousands. (avatar coin an example)
The American part of my collection is probably around 200+ coins, most in lower grades than those pictured.

It is essential that the coins pictured have some sort of good protection, preferably in air tights of some sort, to preserve the red luster.

Thanks to all. And SEL if you'd like one or two, I'd be more than happy happy to mail them. I have quite a few in this condition. Either that or, I'll dump them into circulation. Thanks again for your reply

Panzaldi, LWC is Lincoln Wheat Cents? I'm sort of thrown off by the way you're using then acronym when speaking about my Lincoln memorial cents.

Thanks for the input though