"Newbie" needs pointers re getting graded

"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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I know a lot of people who like to poke around in used book stores,
and I include myself in that category.

When I was going to college, lower 4th Ave in NYC was alive with used
book stores (all gone now) and I spent many hours rummaging thru them.
The rare instances when I have time when in the city, I still try to hit
some of the used book stores like the Strand and Argosy.
Unfortunately there are very few used book stores left in Manhattan or
Long Island.

"Extra Person" wrote in message
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Hi,

My husband and I are amateur coin collectors, but it's been several
years since we've been into it. Kind of took a back-seat to other
hobbies and needs.

Anyway, due to a death in the family, we recently aquired a small
collection of loose coins (and a few bills). We were told that some of
the coins may have a rather respectable value. We did a quick look
yesterday for some, mostly using eBay as a guide for guesstimating. One
coin is being offered at from 1-3 thousand dollars, depending on
condition/grade of course. Being amateurs, we can only guess as to how
ours might fare grade-wise.

So - what I need is a for-dummies guide on how to go about getting a
coin offically graded. I think there are two differnt outfits for
offically grading coins, whose grades are pretty much universally
accepted by collectors and dealers?
Someone also told me you have to mail coins in. I'm not really a
paranoid person, but isn't that risky? Aside from the possible loss in
the mail, what if it's not received by a reputable person? How would we
know if the coin they send back is the same one we sent in?

Dumb questions, I'm sure, but I want to make sure I don't do somthing
stupid in case any of these coins do turn out to actually be worth
something.

Suggestions/advice please.
Thanks,
MP






I'll put it this way.You will almost certainly not get full value for a rare
coin unless it is graded by PCGS or NGC.PCGS graded coins almost always sell
for more than NGC graded coins.

"don't look" don't wrote in message
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I'll put it this way.You will almost certainly not get full value for
a rare
coin unless it is graded by PCGS or NGC.PCGS graded coins almost
always sell
for more than NGC graded coins.

You are an imbecile.
The grading costs for the coins in question far exceed their value.
Why don't you take your head out of your ass before you post?

On Apr 29, 11:28*am, (Extra Person) wrote:
Hi,

My husband and I are amateur coin collectors, but it's been several
years since we've been into it. Kind of took a back-seat to other
hobbies and needs.

Anyway, due to a death in the family, we recently aquired a small
collection of loose coins (and a few bills). We were told that some of
the coins may have a rather respectable value. We did a quick look
yesterday for some, mostly using eBay as a guide for guesstimating. One
coin is being offered at from 1-3 thousand dollars, depending on
condition/grade of course. Being amateurs, we can only guess as to how
ours might fare grade-wise.

So - what I need is a for-dummies guide on how to go about getting a
coin offically graded. I think there are two differnt outfits for
offically grading coins, whose grades are pretty much universally
accepted by collectors and dealers?
Someone also told me you have to mail coins in. I'm not really a
paranoid person, but isn't that risky? Aside from the possible loss in
the mail, what if it's not received by a reputable person? How would we
know if the coin they send back is the same one we sent in?

Dumb questions, I'm sure, but I want to make sure I don't do somthing
stupid in case any of these coins do turn out to actually be worth
something.

Suggestions/advice please.
Thanks,
MP

I left a comment with one of your pre-Civil War coins. It may not be
useful from a value point of view, but possibly of historic interest
(of course, a Civil War/ history buff may value them more highly than
a normal collector might).

raginSteveK wrote:

I left a comment with one of your pre-Civil
War coins. It may not be useful from a
value point of view, but possibly of historic
interest (of course, a Civil War/ history
buff may value them more highly than a
normal collector might).

Thanks, I found your comment very interesting. I'm wondering though, how
would a coin - of which hundreds of thousands were probably minted -
serve to identify a soldier? Can you give a little more background on
that? Thanks,

MP