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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7634254, member: 105098&quot;]Hi Hiwatt, </p><p><br /></p><p>yeah that&#039;s a challenge. what you can do it catalog the coins to start, if it&#039;s a mint set or proof set, and write down what it is and what it contains, then you&#039;d research the value of the set, and then each coin individually to see if any of them have a condition rarity that gives it a higher value, and if there&#039;s a grade that&#039;s reasonably attainable that could clear the cost of the coin and fees for grading it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>if you at least catalog what you have and check what the majority of that coin grades out at at a grading co., and it&#039;s value at that grade, you have at least some sort of a valuation for what you have and that&#039;s a start.&nbsp; Some may disappoint, some may surprise, but you won&#039;t be flying so blind anymore and it will have organization.</p><p>Plus that research will get you more familiar with the coin series you have and your individual coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>like a 1956 franklin half, most are going to grade out as MS64 or MS65,&nbsp; but you&#039;d really need to pull MS65+ with full bell lines, and if possible a MS66 or better with full bell lines for a return on the value and sale that would justify the cost to get them graded. if it takes MS67+ Full bell lines on a franklin half dollar to hit the big bucks, but there&#039;s only ever been 3 graded at that level and none higher, the chance is slim you are sitting on one that grades MS67+&nbsp; FBL, but we can dream can&#039;t we?</p><p><br /></p><p>you&#039;d need to learn how to grade the series, and not be optimistic and instead be critical when grading your own coins, it&#039;s always better to be pleasantly surprised than disappointed in my opinion so don&#039;t fall for the &quot;it&#039;s not that bad&quot; that people do to talk to themselves. LOL</p><p>if trying to grade is too much learning, you&#039;ve at least narrowed it down to the few choice examples that may be worthy, at that point you could get an appraisal from a professional for just those few you are thinking of submitting, or seek opinions for free on the internet if it reaches the grade you think it might. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some folks just say &quot;this coin needs to be worth at least $100 over what I paid for it for it to be worth me getting it graded.&quot; some might set that line at $50, or $150.&nbsp; in the end, it really just needs to be worth it to you for your own reasons. I&#039;d just say don&#039;t spend $40 to get a 1 cent valued cent graded, that&#039;s not doing it wisely, BUT people still do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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