What's A Good Price On A 1938-1964 Jefferson Set?

would that $40-50 price include all the proofs?

We're talking 38-64 here.
That early division of the Jeff set never really includes proofs in the conversation.

WOW your really asking a difficult question. So much depends on grades. For example the 50D alone could run from about $4 to $30 or more.
What you might want to try is get yourself a Red Book, sit down and add up all the prices for that set shown in that book. Then since those prices are always excessive, reduce your final total by about 25%. Just remember that the grades make all the differences.

Look at the competed listings on ebay to see what they went for

The prices mentioned are all steals IMO. Personally I put a higher value on my time assembling that set than to let it go for under 20 bucks. I say under 20 because a new Dansco to put them runs around 30 on its own. Then the 50D and 11 War Nickels. Plus all theearly ones and all in higher circ grade ie VF or better. Pfffttttt

No album has either matte proof to my knowledge.
My album will soon though. I had Dansco make me a Jefferson album
on their largest spine, so I can fit 9 pages. I am going to get
blank nickel pages and expand mine to hold much more than the
standard 8113. I am going to add ALL the proofs, not just the
"proof only" years. I am going to add the 2 matte proofs, and
the 2005-2010 satins as well. Then the "reverse of" varieties
from 1939/1940 will round out everything.





It's all in the quality of the coins.
Seems to me that Jeffersons under about MS63/64 are very inexpensive.
The price jumps up fast above that point...

It can cost several hundred dollars to put together a nice 8113.
Many of the nickels in mine were broken out of slabs, all the
keys especially... I probably have $500 in my 8113.

As for the album itself, it's about $25 retail, but you know that
when you sell something on the second hand market, you never get
retail out of it. Luckily Danscos do seem to hold their value though.
2nd hand Danscos sell for 2/3 of retail quite often. Most items
in this world don't hold that kind of value post-retail.

@ratio411,

That is heck of a project you're putting together, would like to see the result when done. I didn't know you can get Dansco to custom make you a special album.

Well, I bought it! $33.00 plus $5.50 shipping. Seemed like a nice deal - not the best photos but the coins look pretty nice and Marty's a reputable seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JEFFERSON-N...201260292229