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Message:: [QUOTE="Publius2, post: 26032463, member: 105571"]I faced a similar question last year but my goal was to eliminate, as much as was financially sane, all the unslabbed coins in my collections.  In some cases that meant sending raw coins to GC for grading and sale.  In others, where I thought the raw coin might grade OK and if so I might keep them in my collection and if not, sell them.  My purpose for this goal was to: 1)  Make things easier for my heirs to dispose of my collections.2)  Get rid of my earlier mistakes, even if selling them resulted in a loss.  This freed up funds to acquire better coins.3)  Upgrade my remaining collections from the earlier coins that don't cut the mustard today. Now, what did I mean by "financially sane"?  If I thought a raw coin might grade at a wholesale bid value over $300, it was submitted.  If under $150 and I liked the coin, it was submitted.  If under $150 and it was "outta here", then I sent it raw to GC for grading and sale. After this culling, I'm still left with quite a few raw coins that aren't worth taking any of the above actions.  The heirs will just have to sell them off to a LCS and get whatever they can for them.  My written instructions will say just that.[/QUOTE]