I received my ASE 2019-S enhanced reverse proof today. I think it's worth the chance to get it graded and hope for a PF70. I figure if I pay to join PCGS I might as well have some other coins graded. I have some silver eagles and silver proof sets, but I've already read here they won't be worth getting graded. Here's some other coins I have. I'd appreciate any opinions on if any would be worth getting graded. Qty 6 2019 Pride of two nations US version Qty 3 2018 San Francisco mint silver reverse proof set Any advice on dealing with PCGS and which membership I should get would be awesome. Thank you
Hey Cody, I'm a Silver member with PCGS (the lowest membership level.) I just started collecting this year because of the West Point quarters. Decided to get a number of Lowell's graded, and I was pleased with how they came out. It's motivated me to collect more. Anyway, submitting to PCGS is pretty easy, you can actually a form out online, print it, and then submit it with your coins. Then, you wait. It's frustrating because your coins will sit in a status for a while after they were graded. So you won't get your grades until after they're slabbed. I wouldn't go up to a higher level membership unless I have gold coins to send in. Right now, I have one, so it's not worth it. The free grading vouchers are really only worth it for coins that will cost more to get graded. Other than that, I also have a 2019-S (like you) that I'll be sending in with some other ASE's. I completely missed out on the Pride of Two Nations sets, so I might buy a couple of those online and send them in. But honestly, I can't tell you what you should and shouldn't get graded. What I do, is look online and see how much a graded coin would go for, then determine if its worth the cost For instance the Lowell's I sent in, I knew the value of those would go up if they were graded (I sold a few and broke even, but kept the good ones for me.) I think with the 2019-S, if it's a PR70, the value goes up,.. PR69 is basically selling for the same amount as it is in the box.
Thanks Christopher. Looking on eBay a little it seems the Pride of two nations set would be a better choice. I was hoping by looking at the six sets with a magnifying glass I could pick out three better ones to get graded but they all look the same to me. Is there anything I should be looking for? I'm not going to flip any of my coins, but if I or whoever I leave them to decide to sell them I'd like to get as much money as I can for them. I guess if most members are against slabbing modern mint products they are free not to do so and I will slab my coins if I want to.
The only way to know if your other coins would be worth slabbing would be to examine then closely and determine if they had a chance of getting a 70 grade, because other wise they probably aren't worth slabbing. Unfortunately that kind of examination really has to be done in hand.
Correct Conder101 in hand...…. but I just send it to PCGS in same box mint shipped it in still sealed so maybe should of looked before I sent it in.
Depends on what you are sending. Some items you can open and look at, some required the still sealed mint box in order to get various "special designations". I'm sure some stuff sent in in still sealed boxes come back as a disappointment because of lower grade or problems with the coin itself that never would have been sent in (and in some cases would have been returned to the mint as defective) if they had been examined first.
That's what ticks me off about sending items in for grading. I live just outside of DC and can hit the mint coin ship in town. I can get a coin the day it comes out (except for some items like 2019-S ASE.) So, in some cases, I don't have a box sealed from the mint,.. it's just in a bag.
