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It took me months to pare my cent collection down to manageable size. Now I'm preparing to pare down my nickel collection. I am nearly novice about nickels, really.
I ask you (all):
1. Are there any varieties/errors to look for in the dates listed below?
2. What are the key and semi-key dates in the dates listed below?
After some research, I'll be able to price these out. To begin with, I'm considering selling, as a book or individually, the following Liberties. All the coins meet or exceed, "Fine."
1800's:
83 (without CENTS)
84
85
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
95
96
97
98
99
1900's:
01
02
03
04
05
07
08
09
11
12
12-D
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The 85 is definitely a key!
From your list the semi-keys would be (from most to least valuable): 88, 84, 87, 89, and 96.
The "better dates" would be nickels before 1899 and the 1912-D.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You sort of missed the 1913. That is the one you should really look for you know. I myself only have 8 of them.   One thing about that series is they are difficult to find at coin shows yet when you look up their prices they are nothing of great values. Never could figure that out. If you use the Red Book, for example, almost every one in MS-63 is just nothing to shout about. I have several sets of those in practically EF to AU grades and just not of much value. |
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That's a highly desirable set you have there. I wish I had it! If I were going to sell it, I'd hold on to it and make sure I got a fair price, since it would take a very long time to assemble it by buying the coins individually.
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Im currently working on a set in XF or better. The 1885, 1886 and 1912s are the Keys to the set. The 1884 with cents and 1884 to 1899 are mostly semi-keys in higher grades. The 1912D is also considered a semi-key in better grades.
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1934 Posts |
Red Cent said, "That's a highly desirable set you have there. I wish I had it! If I were going to sell it, I'd hold on to it and make sure I got a fair price, since it would take a very long time to assemble it by buying the coins individually." Thanks...I agree....we'll see how it goes on ebay. |
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I, too, am amazed at how cheap most fo the coins are in this set. Very underpriced, possibly because not too many people collect them, compared to Lincoln cents. I personally like Buffalo nickels far more. It is a challenge to get the Liberty nickels in higher grades (above VF) without breaking the bank. My strategy in putting a decent grade set was to buy 29-30 coin partial sets on ebay, missing 85, 86, 12S and maybe one other coin. Usually could get it for around $1 per coin, which always amazed me. Take the highest grade of each and replace with lower grade and sell the set back on ebay for almost the same price. Do this a few times and you wind up with a largely full Liberty partial set. Then the hard part: finding keys for reasonable prices. In some auctions I've watched, the complete set sometimes sells for under $500 (usually low grade keys), yet if you buy the three keys individually, you could easily exceed $500. In my opinion 12S is very underpriced for its low mintage and I think 85 is overpriced. Similar underpriced argument can be made for the Shield nickels and 3 cent nickels. |
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mycrob said, "My strategy in putting a decent grade set was to buy 29-30 coin partial sets on ebay, missing 85, 86, 12S" That's exactly what I'm selling on ebay. |
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1934 Posts |
carl, re: 1913...........harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr deeeeeeeeeeeeeee harrrrrrrrrrrrrrr harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr back !
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