Local Coin Graders

I’m not an ANA member but I’ve been around numismatics since the early ‘70s.

The certified grading services are pretty good at what they do. It obviously can be expensive but there’s also a potential payoff for coins you may personally underestimate.

I’ve sent about 100 coins to ANACS for grading that I’ve collected over the past 50 years.

Several came back MS 64 or 65 when I thought they’d be 62-ish.
Morgans and Walking Liberties specifically that are tough to assign in uncirculated grades.

Also, having coins graded by a reputable service makes their value much less up to subjectivity. My kids don’t care about my collection, I’ll liquidate the coins and I’ll get a higher return on the graded ones.

Post a couple images of several coins here (iPhones take pretty good pics of them) and we’ll give it a stab.

Here’s a 17-D Standing Liberty 25¢ that I found in junk silver about 40 years ago. It came back as VG-10, a $120 coin.

Without the grading, I’d be lucky to get $80 for it.

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Even though O got shitty dies.

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The (generally) inferior New Orleans coinage was attributable to the equipment at the mint to some degree along with not the best supervision or workmanship….

That’s what I’ve been told for years, maybe it’s Yankee hating?

I’ve got some late date Morgans (‘02-‘04) from New Orleans that I submitted and did very well on their grades.

Really well struck and clean fields on the planchettes.