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Garage Sale Steal?

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Upon looking through a box marked $5 each, I found several commemorative coins of Elvis, and some other coins that didn't interest me.

Then I found these 2...

Garage-Sale-Steal?

I looked them up in my Red Book when I got home. Am I looking at the price correctly? I figured the quarters would be about $1 each. I think I was wrong.

Can someone please tell me the value of this $10 purchase?

edit: okay, the picture came out a little small. It's a 1999s silver proof set (9 pieces).
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$5 for a silver proof set?! Take it and run!
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 Posted 07/18/2009  2:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gibby3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
$230-$250 nice find!
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 Posted 07/18/2009  2:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SJUHawks to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well, it was$5 for each of the cases. Cost me $10 total. Can you tell me the value of this. I must be reading the wrong thing, b/c it says $350 or some such nonsense. Is that right?
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Thanks Gibby. Posted before your reply.
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If that is legitimately a 1999 full silver proof set, at least around $250-300. So yes, you STOLE that.

EDIT: might be a little less without COA, nice box, etc
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07/18/2009 2:19 pm
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Lucky!!
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OMG, now I feel terrible. I remember buying a 2000s proof quarter a few months ago for $1 on ebay. I figured this was about the same thing, which is why I bought the set. I then bought the other 4 pieces b/c I thought it would go nicely with the quarters.

They had the gold-plated quarter sets for $5 too. I didn't like those as much. These were much nicer. Now I know why.
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 Posted 07/18/2009  2:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SJUHawks to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
and yes, no box or COA. Just the 2 plastic containers with coins.
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Nice pickup.
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Yes! If you haven't gotten it yet, the 1999+2000 silver proof sets has some (I never understood why) massive demand, and the going price is around $200-$300!

So does the garage sale have anything else for sale?
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Nice find.
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Correction: EXTREMELY nice find!

You did better in a moment than some people do in months with a metal detector!

Kudos, kiddo.
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JACKPOT!

Congratulations!
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 Posted 07/19/2009  12:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TSOTL to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Excellent find.

Check ebay and you can get an idea what these are going for.
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and yes, no box or COA. Just the 2 plastic containers with coins.
You can find empty boxes from ebay sellers of those that sent their coins in for grading. I'd spend the extra dough to have a "new" looking set and sell it for some Very nice profit
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