Sunday afternoon trivia on condition rarity

kranky

There is a US coin series that can be completed in MS64 for less cost than just one particular coin in the series in MS66. (Coin world readers are disqualified because the answer in in this week issue.)

And it's a "real" series, not a fluky SBA series or something tiny like that.

I found it amazing that you could trade off two points of MS grade on a single coin in exchange for the entire series in 64.

FC57Coins

One of the candidates would certainly be Franklins - If you can't complete several MS64 sets for less than $69,000 (1953S in MS66FBL) you should get out of collecting

Frank

tradedollarnut

There's gotta be a lot of series like that:

A few that come to mind:

twenty cent pieces ($75k difference in the 76-CC)
washington quarters (perhaps, with the recent 32-D sale)
franklin halves w/ fbl's (with the first 53-S result)
mercs w/ fb's (w/ that 19-D result)
walkers ($100k difference in the 21-S)
seated dollars (hypothetically - the 70-S difference would exceed $500k)
trade dollars ($150k difference in the 73-CC)
peace dollars (big money in the key date in 66)

These are just the MS coins. Throw in the proofs and there are many many more:

Lib nickels (1913)
Barber dimes (94-S)
Trade dollars (85)
Bust Dollars (1804)
Shield nickels (67 w/ rays)
Reeded edge halves (38-O)

Just about any set with a single great rarity in it (or multiple condition rarities) will yield that result.

keets

that would be washington quarters with the 1932-D being the MS66 coin that gets really nuts in the mint state grades. that's also probably why i don't have one!!!

oh yeah, i didn't read coin world, don't know if this is the answer you were thinking of and just got home after being out of town all weekend. what did i miss and who was this weekends whipping boy!!!???

al h.

Fairlaneman

Well the Good Old Mercs can be done with 3 or 4 different Coins I believe. Of course the previous mentioned 19D but then there is the 18D and the 20S. The 20S may have been a 67 coin though. If a 19S in 66FB ever gets PCGS Graded watch out there.

Ken

truthteller

50pc classic commems series. Greysheet is MS64 approx $16,500 for 50 coins while sequi 50C in MS66 is $17000., but I know this coin trades for substantially more, like $25,000.


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kranky

Well, I apologize for such a crappy question.

The note I read in CW didn't say it was the ONLY series but I incorrectly interpreted it that way. But even so, I'm fascinated that it would be true for so many series, especially some big ones! The CW note was talking about Franklins (non-FBL).

I wouldn't have been so surprised if it would have been for a "single coin" in 67 or above since they can be so tough.

I'll try to salvage a little self-respect on this thread by commenting that it certainly does make a point about condition rarity.

Fairlaneman

Crappy Question......Do Not think So.

It s interesting to find out things about other coin series that are not followed at all. Sure alot of people know what the Keys are but do they know what the more common coins are worth ? Or even if the Keys are worth what some of the Semi Keys are worth ?

Decent Question IMO.

supercoin

It's certainly an interesting pheonomenon.

Ikes qualify too -- in fact for price of one key MS66 Ike, you could do the whole series in MS65, not just MS64. And throw in all the proofs in PR69DCAM too.

I'd rather have the set myself. But as a dealer just the one coin.

wingedliberty

Why don't you consider the SBA a real series?



Brian

kranky

Poor choice of words on my part regarding the SBAs. I was thinking it might look like a trick question if the answer was a very short series (especially a modern one, where a MS64 might be basically a face value coin). So I was trying to make the point that the series had quite a number of coins in it.

No disrespect meant toward SBAs, it's certainly as legitimate as any other series.