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<p>[QUOTE="runninghorse1, post: 8189282, member: 104770"]I sold 40 Morgan and Peace dollars, nothing more than common dates with average grade around "Fine" to "VF." These went up for sale as individual coins on a very popular online auction site back in 2019. I spent the proceeds to pay the $600 plus grading/shipping costs to have my best Morgan and Peace dollars graded by PCGS. Many of them came back with "Details" grade and I quickly found out some of the pitfalls of buying raw coins in the wild without really understanding what cleaned coins look like. I should have taken the "best" ones to a friendly LCS to seek opinion on whether they were "good enough" to send off for grading. If I were considering sending anything in for grading now, I'd get one or two "opinions" first on the probability of grading success BEFORE sending them off with stars in my eyes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="runninghorse1, post: 8189282, member: 104770"]I sold 40 Morgan and Peace dollars, nothing more than common dates with average grade around "Fine" to "VF." These went up for sale as individual coins on a very popular online auction site back in 2019. I spent the proceeds to pay the $600 plus grading/shipping costs to have my best Morgan and Peace dollars graded by PCGS. Many of them came back with "Details" grade and I quickly found out some of the pitfalls of buying raw coins in the wild without really understanding what cleaned coins look like. I should have taken the "best" ones to a friendly LCS to seek opinion on whether they were "good enough" to send off for grading. If I were considering sending anything in for grading now, I'd get one or two "opinions" first on the probability of grading success BEFORE sending them off with stars in my eyes.[/QUOTE]
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