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Best Way To Sell Complete Sets?

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What is the best way to sell a complete set of dimes (1916-45), quarters (1932-45) and halves (1948-63)?

Is there much demand for a complete set of coins? What are some of the things I should consider? How does one ship something so expensive via the mail?

JH
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There is some demand for complete sets--check ebay.

The 1916-1945 date range means those are Mercury dimes. Does the set have the 1916-D, 1921, 1921-D those are the key dates?

Washington quarter keys are the 1932-D and 1932-S. Those from the early 1930s are valuable in higher grades.

1948-1963 half dollars feature Benjamin Franklin. 1955 is one of the tougher dates.

Do you have a way to take photos? Pictures would help us to provide more assistance.

-MV
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 Posted 03/14/2014  11:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
For those you don't sell them whole. The key dates should be sent to pcgs or ngc. Especially for the mercs the 16 d. That's where the majority of the vale will be and without doing that someone could claim it was fake and you'd be out the money and coin. The rest of the album you can sell as one for a bit of a premium being close to done, but even merc fanatics won't spend much on a raw 16 d
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I see alot of talk about sending coins to PCGS but I don't know how to. When I go to their site they talk about clubs and dealers sending coins. I am neither. Please explain.
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You must first become a member to submit to PCGS. http://www.pcgs.com/howtosubmit.html
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Wow, I went back to PCGS and looked at joining and submitting. Looks very complicated. I am not sure what service I even want. Add to the member fee, grading fee and return shipping fee, this could be very expensive. But it looks like if you join one of the higher levels you get 4 or more free gradings a year.

I need to do further reseach into this.
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 Posted 03/15/2014  11:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dave700x to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You need to determine how many coins you have that are worthy of getting into TPG plastic before you make any move. If you only have a couple, you may be better off using ANACS. There is no membership fee and the cost per coin is lower.
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I absutely agree with the advise given so far about selling the keys seperately, or at least having them slabbed and then sold with the set.. But.. Respectfully of course..

ANACS is free to join and you can submit directly. Some prefer PCGS and NGC, and for maximum resale value, for some idiotic reason, they do carry a slight premium over ANACS. But ANACS is just as good as those two. Actually I prefer them over the others, especially when it comes to Morgans and varieties. If your only planing on sending one (or even a couple) coins it would make sense to me to use them or submit through a dealer to one of the other two, as I can't see paying a huge membership fee for just a couple coins. Though for maximum sale value the "top two" might, well probably will, bring more (need a smily for shooting myself in the head)....

I can't stand that the "top two" carry a premium, the coin should sell itself regardless of the plastic it's housed in, I'm almost tempted to say especially with keys. I've seen more than a fair amount of errors on slabs with all of the companies, there's no good reason people disregard ANACS. There's no way I'd pay more for a coin in a PCGS/NGC slab over one in an ANACS slab... They are just as good at grading etc... And far better with pricing/deals.

Uugh... I just don't get it. I don't understand why people never mention them and only suggest the others..... Maybe that's why they carry a premium, they're not getting the attention brought to them that they deserve. Everyone always says "buy the coin and not the slab".... So why disregard ANACS slabs, do people really think someone's going to slip a 16d counterfeit through them unnoticed? Or that it'll be graded wrong? Unless of corse someone is working on a registry set... But even then if I had a PCGS registry set and saw a coin I liked in a ANACS slab, especially for a deal, I'd buy it and just cross it... Uugh... Need that shooting myself smily again
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 Posted 03/15/2014  11:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NathanASE to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Lol, Dave700, I completely agree, you wrote that as I was typing.
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