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Message:: [QUOTE="Lucky Cuss, post: 1627693, member: 44086"]About a hour's drive away is a medium sized city that I go to once or twice a month to do some shopping. There are four pawn shops there, one of which deals mostly in numismatic material, while the other three really just dabble in coins. At the first of these today was a bunch of well worn Franklins being sold at 19X face value. Among these was an AU 1964 Kennedy, so for $9.50, that was a no-brainer. Actually, I probably should've bought all the ratty Franklins, too, at about $2 shy of melt value apiece. At the second shop was a slabbed 1963 Frankin "authenticated" and graded VG. Well, it's way better that that, as you can see, maybe even uncirculated. Priced at its silver content at spot + $1, it was also an obvious buy even though it's pretty common. I expect I'll break it out of this holder. I've saved the best for last, and this unexpectedly came out of the place that mostly sells coins. It was an 1861-O, and I won't say what I paid lest somebody has a heart attack. Suffice to say that it was graded as just VG and valued accordingly. I'd judge that it's substantially above that, at least XF. It has some very slight toning and if it's ever been cleaned it was a long time ago, and not done abrasively. What do y'all think? Maybe submit it for certification? [/QUOTE]