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I was looking at nickels on cointracker.com and according to their info, they claim that it could bring up to $440 in certified mint state at auction. Does this sound right? If so, why is that?  |
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Cointracker does not exactly have the best reputation for being reliable--their prices are usually inflated at least a little bit.
That said, without doing any research, I would say that 1976 is a conditional rarity. On the modern scale of 0-70, it's pretty uncommon to find a coin from before the 1980s in a grade higher than 67-68. Some people have an unhealthy obsession with building an entire collection of MS-69 or 70 coins, and might just pay that much for a MS-69 nickel. It only takes one auction to set the record for how much someone will pay for a coin.
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 to CCF. I am a bit confuser. It says 1976-D yet the photo is an S mint mark. It says MS when the photo is PF in DCAM. I looked up the value on http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml and it has to be in PF-70 to get the big bucks and then it's 3 grand. So ? John1  |
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Pcgs lists a full step specimen as about 300 for ms 66.
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Well, it might me a little UNDER inflated. Say I had a MS-70 FS coin and I went on there- Only $440.
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A 1976-P is listed at $1,000 for an ms66 FS and $3,500 for an ms67 FS. A 1981 ms66 FS is even higher at $3,250.(as listed by PCGS)
Hard to find a Full Step nickel these days.
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Many of their coins show 1 coin for many of that year. They aren't really trying to get the coin pics for a photograde guide, jsut showing what the coin would look like of that year. There isn't even pics of Ikes other than the 1 ok the page last time I was there. Here there is jsut 1 example of a coin of a given type in the Coin Facts as well. Same thing, now a photo guide of the exact coin in question, its the info most often that is useful like mintage. It hasn't been updated in ages (like coin facts here it seems) so it could easily be old info and the spot prices just change based on script to give the silver melt value. It is what I used for mintages before coming here and until it ran out like the Kennedy halves end at 2002 and it doesn't even have ATB or DC & Territories quarters. |
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The '76-D nickel comes pretty nice and Gems are common. MS-66 is scarcer and MS-67 is much tougher yet. FS makes any grade much more scarce though this date comes commonly with well struck steps. PL's exist.
Like all dates top grade coins are not common and this coin doesn't exist in MS-69 or higher. I doubt it even exists in MS-68 but you can look it up.
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The 76D dies were horribly designed, and continued that way for about a decade, so FS nickels are VERY hard to come by for 72-86/87
Cointrackers is a terrible website to base pricing off of, just a heads up.
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