Advice Needed On 1956 Intact Proof Set

It would need to be PF65 to PF66 to justify the TPG grading cost and I would recommend NGC for Franklin halves.

Thank you, Earle42. You know me as KCM on another forum. The moniker was already in use here. It was an image you posted on that other forum that sent me to explore my '56 proof sets. I was pleased to learn I have both types. In the age I purchased my coins, very few collectors or dealers were aware of varieties now considered common knowledge. If not for your kindness in posting the aforementioned image, I'd be yet unaware of its information.

This is my first post on this forum. I see I misled a member. I must take time to introduce myself to any willing to read this crap I write.

Like you, I've been in the world quite a long while. I am by no means new to coins. I am, however, a babe in the woods in the modern age of coins. I was quite active in the 1960's '70's and '80's. I've spent since 2017 "catching up" to the modern coin era. Half a century, I'm discovering, is a long sabbatical from a cult so active.

In this age, I'm a unidirectional coin collector. No acquisitions contemplated. Still, I did purchase some replacement Walking Liberties on ebay. Those in my collection were just too high grade to leave in place. I am planning to have fun liquidating the very large collection I placed in attic storage a half century ago. Not only must I determine what it ought to be worth, I must determine what I have.

I spend time now assigning serial numbers, listing coins on spread sheets and logging research data. On a day, I will delete my Photograde estimate column from a copy of the sheet as well as my NGC price guide column, my PCGS price guide column and I'll begin to haggle. I'm sitting on eight unused PCGS vouchers they send each year I join and I have a credit balance of $250.00 at NGC. If not for the pandemic closure of PCGS and consequent time extension all eight of my 2019-2020 vouchers would have expired unused. Did I mention my babe in the woods status? I've yet to begin to worry about profit margins. Understandably, no one on these sites pays heed to the 28% IRS likes to make on coins and the sensibility of denying IRS some pleasure by spending a portion of theirs on risky grading. I'll send IRS whatever's left over so as not to spend toomany of my remaining years behind bars.

As to grading this coin, I'd already made up my mind not to violate the ancient packaging in order to have a third party grade attached to just one of the packaged coins. I did my probe to see if someone would proffer a good reason to change my mind on the matter. I was, on the other hand, hoping for encouragement of the mind set I adopted.

My overall mission is to garner good info like that just gained. "As to original government packaging, no added value." goes on the spreadsheet. "Type 1" was very recently appended as was "Type 2" to the line with the other set. I'll need this record of guidance to move to the actual liquidation stage. Having it will allow me. It will allow me competently take a loss to put Coin A back in the world because I can see that done better 'an I shoulda on Coin B etc.

Kevin

Yay! For our side!

It really does make a lot of sense, whether to a coin historian like me or a coin economist like so many others.

Proof sets are present-day mongrels, as we know. We know just as well that the count of uncracked proof sets, as well as undamaged sets, and also the ratio of silver vs. clad sets etc. is rapidly declining. This hobby rises - wallet in hand -- when it sees a red flag of rarity on the horizon.

Kevin

I hope, when my relics leave me, they fall into the hands of one like you.

Kevin

Help me understand, please, the goodness in that idea?

Kevin