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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 745808, member: 2972&quot;]I can&#039;t really answer the OP&#039;s question directly, but I&#039;m happy to share my experience....</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC-graded proofs from the 60&#039;s tend to sell for a significant discount to their PCGS counterparts.&nbsp; The perception, rightly or wrongly, is these coins are overgraded.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be extremely wary of these coins resale value.&nbsp; I would look to eBay and TT for pricing, but don&#039;t forget to figure the transaction costs (from 20 to 30% of hammer).</p><p><br /></p><p>I would discourage you from purchasing proof coins from this time period slabbed, or if you do, do it sight-seen.&nbsp; Remember, these proof sets are available by the thousands, and these years (1961-64) are very cheap (for instance I purchased them a few years ago for $10-15).&nbsp; If you really want to collect these coins and get good coins for a &quot;good deal&quot;, cherrypick proof sets you can examine in-hand.&nbsp; Obviously, this presumes you can grade well enough to accurately assess the quality of the coin, but that&#039;s part of the fun in coin collecting, if you ask me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are CAM when the coin most proof collectors covet in these years are DCAM (or UCAM as NCG calls it).</p><p><br /></p><p>On the bright side, the NGC slab is one of the older ones (and presumably more conservatively graded), but to be honest I haven&#039;t focused enough on the grading standards of NGC for moderns over time, so I would look to others to comment further. [Edited to add: To temper the preceding sentence, it is also very dangerous to presume slab age means a coin is conservatively graded -- be wary of that trap.]</p><p><br /></p><p>It would have cost you about $150 to have them graded to begin with -- there&#039;s just more value in my eyes in collecting these coins raw (i.e. the &quot;slab&quot; to &quot;coin&quot; value ratio is out of whack, IMO.)</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the above said, if you like the coins and think you paid a fair price, then I&#039;d say you did fine. </p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly and respectfully submitted, hoping to help...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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