Need some advice. Should I send these to get graded in the unopened original packaging & envelope to get the best grade or is it safe to pen the envelopes and look at my coins lol.
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With 1968 to 72 mint sets you should look at the coins. The coins in the mint sets for those years tend to be fairly crummy. If you send them in blindly your going to be paying good money to have a bunch of MS-60 to 62 coins worth little more than face value certified.
Tbe fact that you're expecting intelligent responses within one hour in the middle of the night doesn't mean they'll exist. Those "reads" will be mostly Google bots and non-members at 4AM on the East Coast.
No reason not to inspect a "sealed" set of that era. We actually consider using "sealed" (were they actually sealed at the Mint, or not...?) as a selling point to be a morally-greasy practice. The Mint sold them to be viewed.
Grading is done on a "per coin" basis. So, your looking @ at least $100. + insurance + postage. You'd have to get some hum-dinger grades to break even. I'd keep them as is, but @ least open them. You may have a '70 sm. date, or other goody.
Thanks for the replies. I guess I shouldn't expect everyone else to be up at O:dark thirty in the morning like me every morning lol. No small dates. They all look pretty typical truthfully.
Quote: NGC has already had things like that for a while.
They HAD things like that. They (officially) dropped the multi coin slabs three to five years ago. (I say officially because like with PCGS it is possible to find them with coins in them dated well after when they said they ended them.)
I can't imagine any of the mint sets having coins that are worth grading. These are not rare sets and unless you get some to grade above MS-65, the value to cover grading just isn't there. In my experience, the coins in the mint sets are not quite that perfect.
Quote: I can't imagine any of the mint sets having coins that are worth grading. These are not rare sets and unless you get some to grade above MS-65, the value to cover grading just isn't there. In my experience, the coins in the mint sets are not quite that perfect.
Actually almost every single one of the best coins made went into the mint sets. The nice coins that didn't go into mint sets are almost all worn out in circulation or have been lost to the ravages of time. Some of these coins, like the 69-P 25c, is quite scarce in BU except in the mint set so you have no choice but to get a mint set coins if you want BU.
It's true, of course, that most of the mint set coins look like garbage but they're 100 times better than what went into circulation. Just keep looking at mint sets and eventually you'll find a Gem.
You may have misinterpreted what I wrote. The coins in mint sets are excellent looking coins. I love purchasing coins this way, and actually have a 1966 and 1965 SMS in my mailbox today.
However, if they were sent in for TPG, what are the odds they will grade high enough to be valued above what they cost to grade? That's all I was saying. I just enjoy the coins and unless it is a rare example I can't see paying $20+ each to have them slabbed.
Even your 1969 quarter example, you'd have to get MS-66 for it to be worth significantly more than it cost to obtain and grade.
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