Grade Pre 1933 Gold Coins?

Excellent idea as it makes them very easy to sell and puts your mind at rest as far as authenticity goes.

Well, so much for a consensus What was I thinking?

I'm leaning toward having them slabbed as I don't see counterfeiting becoming less of an issue moving forward.

I agree with BH1964, if they are common date coins I see no reason they have to be slabbed in order to sell them. Its the rarer dates that should be slabbed if you want the most out of the coin because if you have more buyers interested then you have more bids which drives the price up. Having the rarer coins slabbed will give the new collector a level playing field with the experienced numismatist and they may all throw a bid at your coin. If its not slabbed and a rare date you may just have the experienced and the new collectors that are willing to take a chance, even then chances are that chance they are willing to take would be much less than they would bid on something they knew had a guarantee of being genuine

I think it is worth slabbing double eagles to be sold into the U.S. market, if you think they maybe MS63 or above.

Reason? They are a large coin, and gold is very soft, and the slab will protect them. At that grade or above, you cannot afford for them to acquire any more tiny nicks in them.

I grade my common date example at MS62, but I will not be slabbing mine. Slabs are nowhere as near as much accepted in Australia as they are in the U.S., and the grade I have assigned to my coin would not justify the slabbing expense anyway. Where rarity is not in consideration, a screw capsule is perfectly OK. Such coins can be easily removed from the screw capsule. There is nothing like the psychological tactile they have in the hand.

For smaller coins, you would need to consider what grade that your cois(s) may achieve with a TPG, with rarity also being taken into consideration.

I've mentioned this before, in a different context. The market for raw gold - aside sel_69l's very accurate comments regarding Double Eagles - is a broad and very well-educated one. I'd call it pre-1900-ish rather than pre-1933, but I would be as comfortable dealing raw in that type of gold as I would in pre-1830 copper.

I would not grade, unless its 63-4 or more.