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Fireman638 Valued Member Canada 158 Posts	Posted 01/01/2014 11:26 am I'm hoping this won't be a stupid question.....but I'm stumped. Going through ebay I've been noticing the huge difference in prices for ICCS graded nickel dollars. For example, MS64 in most years can be purchased for $15-$30, but MS65 it jumps to $150-$275. Don't get me wrong, I understand the difference in grades with MS-65 being absolutely flawless.......but is it really that rare for a nickel dollar to attain an MS65 grading? Report this Post to the Staff

zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 01/01/2014 11:39 am Well, I',m no expert but yeah I mean, It's up to population and supply & Demand. If there are only 1/20th of the MS65 Dollars of a date as a pose to a MS64 piece and there are 1/2 as many collectors willing to pay for them then the price is 10 times as much. Report this Post to the Staff
Fireman638 Valued Member Canada 158 Posts	Posted 01/01/2014 1:05 pm I guess that makes sense. Similar to how quickly modern coins can lose their original luster. Report this Post to the Staff
stampvirgin Pillar of the Community United States 1247 Posts	Posted 01/01/2014 2:58 pm Remember that grading is always subjective. What one grader thinks is a ms65 another may grade as a ms64. Buy the coin not the slab. Report this Post to the Staff
EastVanRob Pillar of the Community Canada 617 Posts	Posted 01/02/2014 01:57 am Think large hard heavy coins clanking against each other in mint bags. Not a lot survive in gem condition. Report this Post to the Staff
kuh_85 Pillar of the Community Canada 2366 Posts	Posted 01/02/2014 02:56 am Business strike nickel dollars in higher than MS64 condition are much scarcer than for other coins. The weight of the coin dropping into hoppers when coming off the line and rattling around in bags when distributed made sure of that. Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9862 Posts	Posted 01/02/2014 10:46 am Large nickel coins likely don't strike up well under circulation production methods. Premature die wear may be a factor as well. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Edited by DBM 01/02/2014 10:48 am Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 01/02/2014 2:33 pm I probably go through about 3000 nickel dollars (raw) per month, and of those, I may find 3-5 coins that will grade MS-65 by ICCS, and maybe 1 that I will send to PCGS. The contact marks are not just from their production, but from years of handling and being tossed into coin dealer's ice cream buckets or pails... because they never had/have any intrinsic value. If you hunt long enough, you will find nice ones, and you will quickly learn that some years are a lot harder than others (e.g., 1979 or 1985) to find in gem condition. Also the years 1969 to 1972 were plagued with being struck weakly - which makes it very tough when playing the registry set game (PCGS is hard on weakly struck coins). Building an MS-64 set is cheap, and easy. Building an MS-65 set is quite a challenge.... http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/all...aspx?s=82059 "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Edited by SPP-Ottawa 01/02/2014 2:35 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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