ASE Complete Set Purchase

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Personally, I am not a fan of getting coins graded. For me that money is better spent on getting more coins.

With few exceptions, unless you get a grade back from NGC or PCGS of a perfect 70, anything (even a 69) below perfection will usually not pay for the difference you are paying for having them slabbed.

If you look at the prices (most commonly in NGC slabs) that dates are selling for in MS-69, you will see that if you take the price of the ASE and add on the price of the certification, it is more than what you can buy individual coins for (for MOST dates) already slabbed.

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I assume you purchased a set of the bullion coins from 1986 on...

There are MANY other types of collector ASE's to add to your collection from proofs to reverse proofs to enhanced finish coins. Also collector coins with mint marks from West Point and San Francisco

I would NOT get the bullion coins graded....it would nearly double the cost of your collection.

Now that would be a fun package to open! Congrats and

with the others... no need to grade them, particularly if they're bullion.

You guys are awesome! For my future reference, am I seeing the price to have a coin graded is about $16 at PCGS? Here is a link to the lot I won;

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-2015-S...p=true&rt=nc

I'm also wondering about another lot of 3 graded coins I won here;

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SILVER-EAGL...047675.l2557

Those, I'm curious if these types of slabbed coins are still easily counterfeited? Can the slabs be opened and closed so as to put a fake in a slab? It seems like getting to one of these to verify authenticity via my regular methods of magnet, weight, dimensions and the coin trust app I use to check the sound of it. From what I could tell, looking through the price of MS69 through JM Bullion, the price I got on those 3 coins is not bad.

Of course, as mentioned above, I realize the risk of buying on ebay. I consider these purchases tuition. If they're good coins, then I got a decent price, if not thats Hard Knocks University graduate level education.

Thanks folks!

Pat

So another thing I started doing in 2013 is buying a tube of 20 of the current years ASE. So I have 2 tubes of 2013, 1 of 2014, 1 of 2015 and 1 2016 is on pre order. I did some googling, burnished is different from BU? It seems that they're essentially BU except polished further?

I may consider starting a proof collection. Back to the original question of grading, are proofs worthy of grading? If I were to order one from the mint website for 2015 do you have that type of thing graded?

Thanks!

Pat

Pat, burnished is basically like a perfect condition uncirculated ASE except that it was made at the West Point mint and has a W mint mark. The regular bullion coins don't have mint marks. For each year there's a bullion, burnished and a proof ASE at a minimum. Sometimes there are other special variations.