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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3880606, member: 105098"]Still waiting on mine and been mulling over this question also. To grade or not to grade, that is the question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's where I'm at on it. These are now selling around 10x mint issue price or higher. $650.00 or better for a PR69 or raw. It's going to cost another around $100 to get this graded and getting you in at about $166 or so total give or take. If you get a 70 back you are roughly tripling that $650 though.</p><p><br /></p><p>And with PCGS, they are also grading and encapsulating the COA for an additional $15. I thought this was kind of jenky at first but I did some digging and found that Mint Director David Ryder hand signed the first 100 numbers of COAS near his facsimile signature.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would think a matched set, PR70 and hand signed would fetch an even higher premium. COA # 00001 could be sky's the limit as a graded set PR70.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if you're in for $200 and it's worth $300 you are doing good in my opinion but there's a chance to do great for that extra $100 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>The caveat. You have to Send in the set mint sealed to get the coin and COA graded as a set.</p><p><br /></p><p>For these reasons I've come to the conclusion of getting it graded and rolling the dice. Maybe it drops when the fire wears off on the secondary market, maybe a lot, maybe a little but I can't imaging this being worth less than 3x the mints offering price in which case is a break even proposition if that happens. But I don't think that happens really.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the flippers will run out of inventory and push it up to a point they can't sell the few remaining and lower it some to sell the last few and then they are in the hands of collectors and it's gonna take money to pry one away from a collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>But just my opinion. Where they are priced at now seems like a good idea to gamble on that PR70 grade and the 1:300 odds you get a hand signed COA, and even if you just get the PR70 back, Sell that now for around $2000 and rebuy a raw coin and pocket the $1000 or so profit if you want to.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought mine just to keep for my collection but I gotta say, this whole thing has me thinking...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3880606, member: 105098"]Still waiting on mine and been mulling over this question also. To grade or not to grade, that is the question. Here's where I'm at on it. These are now selling around 10x mint issue price or higher. $650.00 or better for a PR69 or raw. It's going to cost another around $100 to get this graded and getting you in at about $166 or so total give or take. If you get a 70 back you are roughly tripling that $650 though. And with PCGS, they are also grading and encapsulating the COA for an additional $15. I thought this was kind of jenky at first but I did some digging and found that Mint Director David Ryder hand signed the first 100 numbers of COAS near his facsimile signature. I would think a matched set, PR70 and hand signed would fetch an even higher premium. COA # 00001 could be sky's the limit as a graded set PR70. Even if you're in for $200 and it's worth $300 you are doing good in my opinion but there's a chance to do great for that extra $100 or so. The caveat. You have to Send in the set mint sealed to get the coin and COA graded as a set. For these reasons I've come to the conclusion of getting it graded and rolling the dice. Maybe it drops when the fire wears off on the secondary market, maybe a lot, maybe a little but I can't imaging this being worth less than 3x the mints offering price in which case is a break even proposition if that happens. But I don't think that happens really. I think the flippers will run out of inventory and push it up to a point they can't sell the few remaining and lower it some to sell the last few and then they are in the hands of collectors and it's gonna take money to pry one away from a collector. But just my opinion. Where they are priced at now seems like a good idea to gamble on that PR70 grade and the 1:300 odds you get a hand signed COA, and even if you just get the PR70 back, Sell that now for around $2000 and rebuy a raw coin and pocket the $1000 or so profit if you want to. I bought mine just to keep for my collection but I gotta say, this whole thing has me thinking...[/QUOTE]
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