Posted 04/27/2021 5:02 pm
Sounds like you need some info about slabbing coins so you don;t lose money.
Check ebay SOLD items to get a general idea of market value. Check out the costs of grading fees by the grading companies. Check out how high a grade you would need per this date (check out the PCGS price listings on PCGS website) and DDO to break even...let alone make a profit.
Then realize a grade on a slab is always a gamble. There is no science at all to grading. Grades are opinions assigned by people who have experience with grading coins. So you can take, for example, a PCGS graded slab, break the coin out, send it back in to be graded again, and the coin is not guaranteed the same grade ever again. It could come back higher or lower depending on how the graders (8 hours a day staring at coins!) felt during that time of the day.
This is not to say there is not some degree of consistency, but the consistency is a "feel" for what a grade should be that comes with practice. This is also why the companies say on their website that coin grading is an ART, not a science. This is why here at CCF we say to buy the coin and not the slab.
Check ebay SOLD items to get a general idea of market value. Check out the costs of grading fees by the grading companies. Check out how high a grade you would need per this date (check out the PCGS price listings on PCGS website) and DDO to break even...let alone make a profit.
Then realize a grade on a slab is always a gamble. There is no science at all to grading. Grades are opinions assigned by people who have experience with grading coins. So you can take, for example, a PCGS graded slab, break the coin out, send it back in to be graded again, and the coin is not guaranteed the same grade ever again. It could come back higher or lower depending on how the graders (8 hours a day staring at coins!) felt during that time of the day.
This is not to say there is not some degree of consistency, but the consistency is a "feel" for what a grade should be that comes with practice. This is also why the companies say on their website that coin grading is an ART, not a science. This is why here at CCF we say to buy the coin and not the slab.
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Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
