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 Posted 03/22/2025  12:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add j5x429 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can someone please explain how, for example, a 1984-S proof set is valued at only about $6 but....

...if I take them out of the plastic holder and grade them indivudally at a modest 66 they are worth collectively about $40. I am being conservative when I say 66 because, really, they appear a minimum of 69, deep cameo, but I'm not an expert. If they were 69s then we're talking about $100. Seventies would be close to a hundred each.

I paid about $9 avg for 1984-93 but even at that it really seems like a bargain if they are released from the holder. I don't plan on it but, really, who wouldn't? Or should I?
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 Posted 03/22/2025  1:26 pm  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Grading five coins is not going to cost you $34 at PCGS or NGC.
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 Posted 03/22/2025  2:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to the CCF

The cost of grading would quickly exceed the value of the coins at anything PR69 or lower.
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Agree with all above...
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 Posted 03/22/2025  4:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree with the above comments. Not worth grading.
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Sounds like a bad financial quest.
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'Worth' and what people would actually pay are very different.

Modern proofs would have to grade 70 to be 'worth' anything but grading expenses would probably still be higher than what it would sell for after the added selling expenses on top of grading expenses.

Looks like 80's top pop PR70 DCAM nickels are selling (not asking) for an average of $50.
Not much of a margin even if you could perfectly cherry pick your sets for those elusive 'perfect' coins and always get 'top' sales prices.

If it were easy, everyone would do it!
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I've done that and thought about getting pr70 only to be shot down to a pr69 and some pr68. You have to get 70s but only the ones if the value on them is high.
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 Posted 03/23/2025  12:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coins always cost or are worth more individually than in a set. Just like car parts. You pay more to get the one thing you want or need.
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The grading costs would most likely well exceed the value of the coins in the end. Almost all proof and mint sets from 1990 and earlier have already been searched. The chances of finding and getting a coin slabbed in the highest grades is very, very low.
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 Posted 03/23/2025  8:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rlu7732 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would argue it's still possible. I picked up these two recently within the last few months from unopened sets. What these would grade, I am unsure. But I know it's tough to find DCAM's from these years.


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