1974-S Eisenhower / Ike - Proof Set Coin, Grade?

I've heard stories that if you break it out it's possible no matter how you handle it, you can decrease the grade from just it being reacting to the air.

Looks like a 69DCAM. I doubt it would be worth the cost of the TPG fees to slab it though. Probably cheaper to buy one already slabbed.

If grading is free, I say go for it then.

Ed, I'd love to, but buying raw coins above say $100 scares the daylights out of me, too many cleaned coins hiding behind doctored pictures, etc. I have been burned a couple of times and tend to approach any raw coin auction with extreme hesitation!! I enjoy collecting Large Cents and Half Cents and IHC's and have simply had too many where it looked like a problem free coin with original surfaces and I get it in hand and find out it's cleaned/retoned, recolored, or worse and the seller was using lighting and Photoshop. There was a raw 1794 cent I just passed on for that same reason, it looked like a solid G on a non porous planchet with no major issues but I didn't want to spend $400 and then find out I just bought a cleaned details piece. Sellers who take lots of pictures and have good lighting and really show off the coins are to be found, but bidders tend to find them as well, and sometimes there's enough bidding to negate the price advantage between a raw coin and a slabbed example of the same.

What I'd love more is someone to open a good LCS where I live, we had 2, one shut his doors and went online sales only, the other just shut his doors. I miss the days of catching a lift as a kid over to the bookstore / coin store next to it and spending a couple hours searching through the junk silver and cull trays, junk silver was 10x face value so I could afford a coin a week usually, 2 quarters or a half, or 5 dimes, I got $5 a week spending money.

I do my jewelry business with a local jeweler and his son and they do some coins but it's mostly gold and already slabbed and somewhat overpriced although I'd never tell him that!

Since you have free submissions, I would say go for it. Nice proof coin, and Ike dollars aren't often graded as much as other coins. Would probably come back PR 69 DCAM.