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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 1920724, member: 36230"]"Possibly" or, with an experienced eye, has an excellent shot? Even then, let's say they grade out at the hoped-for level: how much is it going to cost you, in total, out-of-pocket to get the slabs in-hand? How much could you buy already-slabbed examples for? With graded bullion especially you need to be very careful; if they do not come back as 70's, you likely just buried yourself, and since you're asking about potential, I doubt this is something you want to do. As for any potential, and I can only read between the lines here, but it is my feeling that you are probably better off just leaving as-is, and if you want slabbed, buy slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What type of doubling? Is it a known/listed/premium-worthy variety accepted by the the top TPGs, or is it, if indeed an actual variety, one that you would have to take the ANACS route with? Please understand that a coin is what it is inside of a slab or out. While there certainly are some coins that should be slabbed, there are many, many more that do not or never deserved to be. With a coin such as this, the only way slabbing will make sense is if it both grades out at a certain level and/or is of a valuable variety, so before even considering such a move, more homework needs to be done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 1920724, member: 36230"]"Possibly" or, with an experienced eye, has an excellent shot? Even then, let's say they grade out at the hoped-for level: how much is it going to cost you, in total, out-of-pocket to get the slabs in-hand? How much could you buy already-slabbed examples for? With graded bullion especially you need to be very careful; if they do not come back as 70's, you likely just buried yourself, and since you're asking about potential, I doubt this is something you want to do. As for any potential, and I can only read between the lines here, but it is my feeling that you are probably better off just leaving as-is, and if you want slabbed, buy slabbed. What type of doubling? Is it a known/listed/premium-worthy variety accepted by the the top TPGs, or is it, if indeed an actual variety, one that you would have to take the ANACS route with? Please understand that a coin is what it is inside of a slab or out. While there certainly are some coins that should be slabbed, there are many, many more that do not or never deserved to be. With a coin such as this, the only way slabbing will make sense is if it both grades out at a certain level and/or is of a valuable variety, so before even considering such a move, more homework needs to be done.[/QUOTE]
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