Birth year sets?
MadMonk
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What is your opinion of Uncirculated "Birth Year" sets. How does one figure a fair price for them.
I see them all over ebay, getting in the way when I'm searching through mint sets. Prices vary wildly. I'm talking about the kind of sets you go out and buy a plastic holder that holds say a one each of a penny through half dollar. I have so many coins from busted uo mint sets, I was wondering if this would be a good efficient way of selling them off, and putting the money to better coin?
I see them all over ebay, getting in the way when I'm searching through mint sets. Prices vary wildly. I'm talking about the kind of sets you go out and buy a plastic holder that holds say a one each of a penny through half dollar. I have so many coins from busted uo mint sets, I was wondering if this would be a good efficient way of selling them off, and putting the money to better coin?
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That along with some other experiences with the modern coin market is one of the reasons why I don't care for it.
A lot of these put together birth year sets seem to be nothing more than a collection of inferior coins thrown together with "birth year" as the hook to try to get even a small premium.
I did like Carl W. and found myself the nicest original 57 mint set I could find. That satisfied my need for a birth year set very well. Before that I had been grabbing outstanding single coins, and it was fun, but just kind of filled time.
Someone finding nice examples of coins and putting them together in birth year sets to sell... there's nothing wrong with that. I have given inexpensive birth year proof sets to non-collectors as birthday gifts. They usually really like it. But... a lot of the put together birth year sets I see on eBay, are just ratty coins thrown together, and not worth much consideration.
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