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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ctrl, post: 354304, member: 13378&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been a long-time reader of the forum and have held an interest in numismatics for quite a while and am really just now beginning to purchase some real coins of my own. </p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from that, I&#039;ve become something of the administrator for a family coin/currency collection because of my interest in coins. It&#039;s a fairly large , broad and completely unorganized collection, so I&#039;m trying to organize it and see what can be done with it. One thing I&#039;m thinking of doing is paring down the collection and focusing it - selling some of the numerous low-to-mid quality coins (stacks and bags of ~G-4 indian cents, buffalo nickels, etc) and basically junk silver coins (i.e. barely-identifiable barbers, mercury dimes that are G-4 or below, rolls of average-quality silver roosevelts, etc) and using the proceeds from those sells to re-invest in the collection with fewer and better [quality and date] coins that are easier to manage. I am also interested in possibly getting a few of the current better date examples I have here authenticated/graded. That&#039;s where this thread comes in. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have scanned in a few of these coins. I&#039;ve been reading up on better scanning/photo techniques and will improve in the future, I&#039;m sure, but I hope these will suffice for now. Note that the plastic is creating some anomalies in the images. The better-date coins I&#039;m interested in having graded/slabbed (for authentication, grading, preservation purposes) are the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>1928 Peace dollar (VF-20 - wear on wings on rev, hair lines on obvc are slightly worn)</p><p>1897-O dime (EF-45 - strong edges, high points on rev intact, head band defined and LIBERTY are sharp)</p><p>1893-CC dollar (G-4)</p><p>2x 1914-D cents (1st: what&#039;s with the woody-grain? VF-20) (2nd: AG-3? looks like it was buried and dug up years later) - images on next post</p><p><br /></p><p>I am still working on my grading skills, but I&#039;ve given my grade estimation in parenthesis. Note in the pictures that the scanner is not picking up the true color, especially on the cents - the first is redder in hand than in the image and the peace dollar is more vivid.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question is, given the condition of these coins, would it even be worth it to get them graded. I realize the 1893-cc dollar is in pretty poor condition and not likely to be worth the effort. However, the peace dollar, 1897-O dime I think might be worth it. And I would think the 1914-D cents would be good to be authenticated, however, the condition of the second one might change that. That&#039;s what I&#039;d like to hear from the experts here, what do you think would be advisable? (Plus, how far off am I on my grade estimations? Need better images?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks very much![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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