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MarkFeld

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  1. MarkFeld
    Most collectors care about some combination of quality and eye appeal. You should find ways to buy coins in person, especially if you’re going to buy ungraded ones. To do otherwise would be trying to beat huge odds against you. And eventually, if not quickly, you’d end up losing.
  2. MarkFeld
    Welcome to the forum. Based on your own words, you don’t have the funds or the knowledge to start a business. Interest and enthusiasm are great, but you you’ll need a lot more than that.
  3. MarkFeld
    "Bodybag" is a term used for when a coin is submitted for grading, is determined to have a problem which precludes a straight grade and is returned to the submitter in a bag, rather than in a third party holder. That scenario is a lot less common these days, now that details grade coins can be holdered. It wasn't always that way.
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    That’s what I’ve thought, but see the link in the post above yours. The language leads me to think there’s been a change.
  5. MarkFeld
    It’s just a damaged coin.
  6. MarkFeld
    I’d suggest weighing a couple of other older and newer cents and see what the scale says.
  7. MarkFeld
    It's just worth 1 cent.
  8. MarkFeld
    I see nothing that would give the coin extra value, whether ungraded or graded.
  9. MarkFeld
    It means that like nearly every other 1982-D cent, it has no extra value. So you can spend it.
  10. MarkFeld
    I’ve heard similar thoughts from others over the years. I don’t know whether they ended up providing EBay with specifics.
  11. MarkFeld
    If you meant an 1829 dime, I know of whom you’re speaking.
  12. MarkFeld
    Sometimes they take action, other times not. I frequently report counterfeits and fraudulent listings, but it’s a never ending, (largely) losing battle. Please report and cross your fingers.
  13. MarkFeld
    Weigh both of them again and an older date too and let us know the weight of each one, please.
  14. MarkFeld
    You didn’t include any photos, but no, none of them need to be small dates. The chances are close to zero.
  15. MarkFeld
    Based on the way the question was posed, it didn’t sound like the poster had any basis for thinking the coin should/would upgrade. So that gamble could have a nice potential payout, but only an extremely slim chance of success.
  16. MarkFeld
    Grade inflation hasn’t, by any means, been limited mostly to Morgan dollars.
  17. MarkFeld
    Or that he’s looking to make something out of nothing, for fun.
  18. MarkFeld
    Hopefully, if he really thought it was anything special/of value, he wouldn’t have been holding it that way.
  19. MarkFeld
    Curiously, why do you “need to send them for grading”? The fees will almost certainly be more than any added value to the coins.
  20. MarkFeld
    Those are large date examples. See here: http://www.lincolncentresource.com/smalldates/1960smalldate.html
  21. MarkFeld
    Thanks.
  22. MarkFeld
    Yes, “regrade” service is for submission of a coin in the holder, to the same company which graded it previously, in the hope of a higher grade. If the grading company feels that the coin deserves a higher grade, they will change it. I believe that there is some bias against raising the grade, hence my previous comments about more upside and downside in submitting raw, vs. via regrade.
  23. MarkFeld
    Yes, thanks for setting the record straight and apologies to the forum for having misspoken. I still think that submitting raw offers more upside (and downside) than submitting as a regrade in the holder. How do you feel about that?
  24. MarkFeld
    Yes, see my post above yours.😉
  25. MarkFeld
    He mentioned proof coins, so I think it’s unlikely that pictures will help much. It’s usually nearly impossible to provide meaningful grade assessments of proof coins, based on images. Because the grade is largely affected by hairlines, which rarely show to their full extent (if at all) in images.