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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1315247, member: 19423&quot;]First, welcome to the forum.&nbsp; I figured I&#039;d reply to correct some misinformation in previous replies.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Slabbing coins isn&#039;t cheap.&nbsp; Assuming your already a member of PCGS or NGC, getting all 5 of your sets graded (25 coins) will be $400 at a very minimum (PCGS cost w/o FS labels).&nbsp; If you opt for NGC, it&#039;s a little more and if you go for PCGS w/ FS labels it&#039;ll be nearly $900.&nbsp; Plus you have to wait about a month to get your coins back.&nbsp; Of course, if you hit some 70s in your submission, then it may be worth it... but if prices decrease over the next month, you may not be happy.&nbsp; It really is a gamble when you send in a sealed box.&nbsp; You know right now you could sell the box sealed to someone else for X dollars, or you could open it up and sell of raw sets individually for Y dollars each... everything else is speculation.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. You can send the sets via Express Mail insured for up to $5000 (and the USPS insurance does cover collectible coins - if you have to file a claim, don&#039;t say it was cash or bullion though).&nbsp; But why would you want to do so, what is the rush?&nbsp; If you&#039;re worried about the FS deadline, PCGS goes by the postmark on the box the Mint sends to you.&nbsp; So, if you keep the box sealed and it&#039;s marked before the FS deadline, then you can get it to PCGS whenever you want, whether it be late-December or five years from now and it&#039;ll still qualify for the FS labels.&nbsp; If you have open sets, you can still get the FS labels on the 2011-P Reverse Proof and the 2011-S coins if your package to PCGS is postmarked by the FS deadline.&nbsp; The date PCGS receives the coins is irrelevant.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; You need to send a sealed Mint box if you want the &quot;25th Anniversary Set&quot; designation and/or FS labels on all 5 coins in the set.&nbsp; If you only want that designation on the 2011-P reverse proof and the 2011-S coins, then you can send unsealed coins since those two coins are unique to this set.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; Hard to prove since hardly anyone has sold any non-FS coins yet.&nbsp; You&#039;ll see more of them after the FS deadline passes and only sealed sets qualify for the labels.&nbsp; After the FS deadline, all reverse proofs and 2011-S coins sent in unsealed can still get the &quot;25th anniversary Set&quot; label, but they won&#039;t be eligible for FS.&nbsp; That said, I&#039;m one of the very few that submitted my sets to PCGS and didn&#039;t pay the extra $450 for the FS labels.&nbsp; I&#039;ve sold some coins so far and I&#039;ve noticed no price reduction in the selling price and offers I&#039;ve received.&nbsp; In fact, some people prefer to have the standard labels vs. the FS labels or other special labelling.&nbsp; Today, I sold a PCGS reverse proof in PR70 for $895 w/o the FS labels.&nbsp; Several examples w/ the FS labels or with the Mercanti autographs sold for less than my coin today.&nbsp; Of course, the sample size is pretty limited though at this point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The real question is how much work do you want to do... if you don&#039;t mind the extra work, then submit them all for grading (sealed) and then sell them off individually when you get them back.&nbsp; If you get lucky with grades, you&#039;ll probably make a little more, but you&#039;ll spend quite a bit more time dealing with these sets (and you&#039;ll wait a month for grading).&nbsp; But if you don&#039;t want to do much work, then sell your sealed box to someone else and take the nice profit, or maybe open the box and sell off individual sets.&nbsp; Regardless, you&#039;ll end up getting way more than your $300 paid for each set.&nbsp; Finally, please note that my comments are geared more towards PCGS policies since that is where most of my submissions go.&nbsp; If you&#039;re thinking NGC for your coins, you should confirm with them if you have questions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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