My First TPG Submission Results - Guessing Game

everything else would get slabbed even if damaged.

Should have added there are a few other reasons they wouldn't get slabbed but my guess with no other information would always be fake as that is the most common

The center stack. 2 Not Genuine, 1 Not Suitable for Grading. I'm certain those three would have been avoided if I had posted them here first.

So, @jadey, if I dare ask you this question, was it worth the cost to have that lot slabbed by a TPG?

Coinfrog guessed it. Brutal huh?

The good thing is that the coin I paid good money for straight graded.

So did you lose money overall by paying for the grading? Or was it a winner b/c of the one coin?

That's clearly a subjective question, but in general, yes.
I have decided to enter the realm of collecting higher quality coins, and I think part of that process is to come to terms with the fact that you will be using TPG's. I've never really been a fan, but I think it would be swimming upstream to resist that.

However, if I had discovered this site earlier, I would have saved some money. One of the bagged coins is a Capped Bust half that was probably polished or whizzed (still not quite sure what that means yet), but I submitted it knowing that it was probably cleaned. A bunch of other of the same variety I did not submit, because I knew they were cleaned, but in a different way.

The other two bagged coins were "not genuine", and a simple weighing would have identified that. I can't really understand why I didn't do that prior to submitting, because I did that on a couple of other counterfeits. For whatever reason, I didn't find these coins suspicious, even though they were pretty high value ($700/each). Oh well, lesson learned I hope.

A couple of the details coins surprised me, and a number did not, and I thought it was worth the process to establish that they are genuine. One details coin came back scratched, and I could not find out why. It took me literally 2 minutes to find the scratch, but when tilted at just the right angle, it popped out at me. Oddly enough, I took a picture of the coin in low light, and the scratch just jumped right out.

One common Morgan 1889 dollar that I submitted was because I had a roll of 20 uncirculated. I sent in a representative sample to try and determine roughly where to grade them. I could have done that here.

Finally, the 1799 dollar that I paid good money for came back genuine at VF 30. That was my primary concern.

So, I would do it differently, and more intelligently knowing what I know now after joining this community, but I would still submit at least half of those coins to a TPG.