Acg Certified Morgan Dollars

For maximum resale value getting them graded by one of the top three third party graders (in order- PCGS, NGC & ANACS, but personally for me with Morgans I'd go with ANACS and also get the VAMs attributed, you could have some valuable ones) would probably be your best bet.. And ANACS would also be your cheapest bet, No membership fees.

I'm not too familiar with ACG, meaning I haven't seen many coins encapsulate by them, nor do I know how "accurate" they are in there grading, so you should just know that even though they are all 65 and up right now there's a chance that many if not all, will not receive the grade they have now. They very well could be lower, far lower in some cases.

Most coins graded by companies other than the top 3 sell the same as they would if they were raw. And smart collectors will buy "the coin and not the slab" anyways, so if the ACG grade is MS-65 but the coin is definitely not most buyers will only pay what thy feel reasonable by looking at the coin, they won't just dish out 65 money because a non reputable/well know/commonly used (today) company says it is.

I'd love to see some good, detailed pics of the coins in question... I'm quite curious to see how accurate they are in there grading compared to the top 3... Like I've said I've seen few and never really looked closely at them... So if at all possible could you post some pics in this thread? It would help to better advise you because if there lower than the listed grade and common dates selling them raw might be your best bet as your going to put money into them if you have them graded... Money you probably would like to make back... At the very least, lol. But if they happen to be around MS-66's then getting them graded is probably a decent idea.

Thanks Vermontensium, lol, that's kind of what I thought but didn't want to give the OP bad advise and speak ill of them (ACG) without being 100% positive.

Again, posting pics would be a great help to us... Because if they are low grade MS (or lower) selling them raw could be your best bet or you might put almost as much into grading them as you get for selling them. but if there mid grade examples getting them graded may very well be worth your while.. So again pics would be a huge help.

When Alan Hager started Accugrade in 1984 he did a good job. The large Photoslabs have many collectors and are usually close grade wise to where they should be. Later in the 1980's Alan went to smaller slabs and got greedy. Coins were deliberately over-graded and then ACG Accugrade was sold and got even worse (from what I understand). Anyway, I wouldn't crack them out unless you are having them re-graded. If they are graded 65 and up chances are they are from the later years and over-graded several points. Perhaps note the coins are guaranteed genuine only when selling.

good choice. Could you still possibly post some pics? I'd still like to see how accurate there grading was... Just out of curiosity.

Plus someone here may want to buy some. ;o)

Here's some slab info that many of you have probably seen before. It's worth a look.

Guess that site is not allowed. Here's a screen shot from part of one page.