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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eric Babula, post: 26032314, member: 85976&quot;]I have some semi-hypothetical questions about sending coins to TPGs for slabbing. I&#039;m not talking about a specific coin today, so no pictures. I&#039;m interested in your opinions, and general Rules of Thumb.</p><p><br /></p><p>My main question is: When is it appropriate, or maybe even desirable, to send your coins to a TPG service for slabbing?</p><p><br /></p><p>My assumption, right now, is that if you&#039;re not planning on selling, you wouldn&#039;t bother getting them slabbed. Is that true? Although, I do sometimes think about &quot;what if I die? My family might get screwed out of a lot of money if none of my better coins are slabbed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So, let&#039;s make up some coins:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Let&#039;s say, one has some Uncirculated Morgan Dollars that they know they want to sell (maybe they&#039;re AU sliders, but for this exercise let&#039;s assume they&#039;re actually Uncirculated). Maybe they were purchased 20-25 years ago.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * What if some of them were listed as MS-62 at that time, and were purchased at around $25-$50 each. Maybe they&#039;re MS-62 (PCGS currently lists at $90). Maybe they could make MS-63 (PCGS currently lists at $120).</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * What if you have some that are close to the cutoff for higher dollar amounts? Let&#039;s say, they&#039;re MS-64 and you paid $50 back then (PCGS currently lists at $160), but could maybe make MS-65 (PCGS currently lists at $525) on a good day.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * What if you had some coins in old holders (PCGS rattlers, ANACS Photo Certs, NGC fatty&#039;s, PCI OGH&#039;s)? Many of those coins were graded rather conservatively compared to today.</p><p><br /></p><p>What would entice you to send to TPG?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Are there any industry standard Rules of Thumb that I&#039;m not aware of?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Is there a certain dollar amount (assuming you can sell for PCGS online prices) above purchase cost that you shoot for?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Is there a certain grade that you would want to get, and anything under that isn&#039;t worth sending?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Would you send in a lower grade coin if it&#039;s very nicely toned?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Would you make sure you get the VAM number attribution on the slab?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; * Would you send in old slabs for re-grading?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; * If so, would you send as-is, or crack out?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; * Why?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, this is long enough. Thanks for reading, and TIA for your helpful suggestions!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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