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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 22042073, member: 13650&quot;]Well, I&#039;m probably the one you wanna talk to because I started about the same time you did and you&#039;ve reached the point I did back around 2012.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had a US Type going in an intercept album that was actually really nice, but somebody got me interested in doing a US Type registry set on NGC.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anybody can do one.&nbsp; It&#039;s free to use.&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#039;s actually fun taking photos of new acquisitions and replacing the stock photos and just submitting your new coins to the set.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it gives a price guide value next to it (unless it&#039;s a details coin then it doesn&#039;t assign any value, although there is value) and it assigns a set amount of points for the coin.&nbsp; Best of all you can view your set online any time, anywhere but there&#039;s no identifying info other than your username.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; There are many different options for the US type there.&nbsp; The most popular being</p><p>&quot;US Type Including moderns&quot;&nbsp; Me and a friend do that one.&nbsp;&nbsp; It entails everything from the 1792 half Disme up to the new womens quarters.&nbsp; Clad and silver versions.&nbsp;&nbsp; All three types of the the 3 cent.&nbsp; All 3 types of the SLQs.&nbsp; But no gold.&nbsp; You may be annoyed by the seemingly endless Liberty seated versions across denoms but you may also like it.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; There are shorter US Type options than this if you choose.&nbsp; This one is one of the few actively evolving options.&nbsp; So if a new dime comes out next year, it will be added to this one.&nbsp; A pre-64 set it would not be, of course.&nbsp; It&#039;s your choice.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m really satisfied with it.&nbsp; About 140 coins total.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve accepted there&#039;s probably 8 to 10 or so I&#039;ll never own unless I hit the lottery but the rest are attainable for me.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m currently sitting at 67% and ranked 89th out of about 1700, with a few more to be added soon.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can tell you at this point the $200-250 price level is rarely seen for the remainder of this set (that I have left) unless you&#039;re buying damaged, slick coins.&nbsp; &nbsp; Some are pretty hard to come by.&nbsp;&nbsp; I actually just sent in a draped bust half cent hoping for a straight grade on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I did send some of my original set into get graded.&nbsp; Some I used that were already slabbed and already in my collection.&nbsp; &nbsp; As far as your coins here, you would probably be better off trading some in on already graded examples.&nbsp; The grading fees have gotten really bad for classic coins.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s $10 per form tier.&nbsp; If you have a modern it&#039;ll be another $10 for that tier.&nbsp;&nbsp; For classics its $40 a coin as the cheap option.&nbsp; If you want the coin to be attributed, that&#039;s another $18 on top and if you want a scratch resistant slab, which I always select because scratches are so annoying, that&#039;s another $5 per.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it&#039;s minimum $28 to have 1-10 coins shipped back to you, which is relatively cheap with the insurance this day and age.&nbsp; &nbsp; Don&#039;t forget you also paid to get them there.&nbsp; &nbsp; Maybe you can piggy back with somebody else if you can.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can&#039;t.&nbsp; &nbsp; You can&#039;t afford to send them one at a time.&nbsp; You need to send large batches in to make it worth it if youre going to do it.&nbsp; One or two at a time is just cost prohibitive but if you want to do it you can.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From the pics I think your flying eagle and 2 cent have a shot.&nbsp; I bought a loose 2 cent on ebay and submitted it myself and it came back MS-65RB.&nbsp; One of my best hits.&nbsp; I have that Flying eagle in MS-62 and yours looks as good as mine.&nbsp; The half cent isn&#039;t going to make it.&nbsp; I think the differnt colors you see indicate it has been messed with.&nbsp;&nbsp; To find a loose half sent above VG condition that isn&#039;t damaged, corroded or cleaned is nearly impossible.&nbsp;&nbsp; For many coppers, you just never know.&nbsp; &nbsp; For MOST coins you never know.&nbsp; When I send stuff, I&#039;d say I can only ever be about 80% sure it will straight grade.&nbsp; I&#039;m 80% sure on the half cent I sent in.&nbsp;&nbsp; To me it looks original but you really have no idea what they will see and what you&#039;re missing.&nbsp; If I get a details grade I will often just use the coin anyway because I liked it enough to purchase it.&nbsp; &nbsp; The moderns are much easier and I always try for top pops (70s, 69s).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d say you&#039;ve got a 50/50 chance on the 3 cent.&nbsp; Great details but scratches are never good.&nbsp; Sometimes they&#039;ll let it pass on a tiny coin but might just depend on the day whether it&#039;s cleaning or circulation scratches.&nbsp; &nbsp; The IHC is nice.&nbsp; It probably has a good chance but again, might be worth trading on one that&#039;s already graded to save the grading fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; My goal has just been to try for the nicest option I can afford in each slot.&nbsp; Sometimes I trade stuff in plus cash on some I&#039;ve reached on.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve done it over many years.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a challenging set but very interesting to look at.&nbsp;&nbsp; I use four Lighthouse albums for it and place them in the pages in the order they are in, in the registry.&nbsp; &nbsp; So you can page through them and see them just like a normal album even though everything is in slabs.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s just as enjoyable looking at the pics in the registry though for me as I have a pretty decent set up. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; PCGS does a registry too but NGC accepts both NGC and PCGS where as PCGS only accepts PCGS.&nbsp; If you want to go that route.&nbsp; It will give your collecting guidance.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to worry about the points unless you want to.&nbsp; And then you can look at other people&#039;s sets as well.&nbsp; Many of the top sets have no pics which is a little suspect to me but there are some you can look at that are fantastically done.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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