Advice On Submitting Coins For Grading

to the CCF!

of all the coins.

The only TPGs I would send to are PCGS/NGC. ANACS is useful to authenticate some key dates but can't be relied upon for a very accurate grade.
Don't waste your money sending coins to ICG, SEGS, or PCI.

First, please post images of the obverse and reverse of each coin here so we can look at them and check if they are worth grading.

ebay is the best place to sell coins. Heritage or Stack's Bowers for very high-value coins.

"Error Free" coin? (..newbie question..)..

EF or XF = Extremely Fine

ICG is just as good if not better than ANACS, they shouldn't be lumped in like that. They're a good option for coins not worth the PCGS/NGC fee.




There's no real arbitrary number for when to send in or not too. It really depends what you're sending in and why. Plenty of people send in cheap coins that are special and sentimental to them that otherwise would have never been worth it.

If you wanted to approach it from a purely financial standpoint then it's really just a simple yes no question. Will grading increase the value by at least the cost of grading, if yes sure send it in if no then it's not worth it in that respect.

There's a little more to the whole question as your intentions come into play, whether its a better date of something, what series, if selling how you want to sell it ect.

One other consideration is if you are ever planning to either "sell" or "gift" your collection down the road (.. aren't we all?), it is a lot easier to do with graded/slabbed coins then a "raw coin album". A dealer can quickly determine the value of a slabbed album, whereas a "raw" album requires a lot more analysis. Also, the person that inherits the coins will also be able to much more quickly determine the "values" of coins that are slabbed/graded.

Not really a reason just to slab them, but could be a consideration.. especially for the more "valuable" coins in a collection...

Michael

+1 on $200+ as a general rule of thumb (not to say that people don't have 1000's of reasons they submit lower value coins.)

And as stated above, it really comes down to what you intend to do with the coins.
I prefer raw coins myself, but when it is time to sell high value coins, especially through an internet auction, having them graded is important.

@einstem
I have bought collections through estate sales, where I couldn't fully inspect all of the item, to then find loads of key dates.
Most recently one album contained a full set of Wheat Cents with the big 4 key dates all there and a buffalo album with the 3-legged, so yes that does happen, and I am sure the family would have received more at the sale if those coins had been slabbed and separated. Not to say this happens to me all of the time, most often its just loads of common coins but it's partly how I collect and search.