Interesting Ebay Pricing Information on PCGS Graded MS65FBL Franklins

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Over the past year I've been tracking Ebay sales for a certain dealer who deals in PCGS graded Franklins. This dealer generally puts up a healthy number of PCGS graded Franklins (20-35) at a time, with no reserve, and all going off within minutes of eachother, so to me, this represents a pretty good cross section of prices for the grades. Of the quality that I've seen, I would say that it is average - sometimes they're nice, sometimes they're OK - basically what I would expect from "sight unseen" material. Over the past year, this dealer has held about 6 different sales, one every couple of months, and I've been tracking prices on MS65FBL's. Now, not every coin has been put up for sale, so the study is by no means scientific. What it did yield is that on average, the prices realized in these sales, is about 50% of CU prices for MS65FBL. Now granted, the numbers range all over the board, but for the most part I didn't see any major surprises, and I was glad to see that prices for these high grade Franklins have been for the most part holding steady.

I'm sorry that the numbers don't line up quite properly, but basically you have the date, type, CU Price, Price realized in these sales, and the percentage or CU price. Good information to have if you're buying Franklins at this level. There are some coins for which there were no sales, so those lines only show the CU price.

Frank

1948 85
1948 FL 165 $100.63 61.0%
1948-D 145
1948-D FL 165 $99.25 60.2%
1949 135
1949 FL 300 $123.01 41.0%
1949-D 1050
1949-D FL 1850
1949-S 140
1949-S FL 650 $271.75 41.8%
1950 112
1950 FL 375 $142.51 38.0%
1950-D 575
1950-D FL 1100 $406.11 36.9%
1951 85
1951 FL 250 $147.50 59.0%
1951-D 230
1951-D FL 550 $177.50 32.3%
1951-S 95 $50.00 52.6%
1951-S FL 750 $382.70 51.0%
1952 79
1952 FL 195 $86.44 44.3%
1952-D 196
1952-D FL 475 $179.19 37.7%
1952-S 85 $51.59 60.7%
1952-S FL 1200
1953 200 $103.50 51.8%
1953 FL 850 $553.03 65.1%
1953-D 235
1953-D FL 400 $170.06 42.5%
1953-S 70 $44.18 63.1%
1953-S FL 15000
1954 79 $35.00 44.3%
1954 FL 185 $75.67 40.9%
1954-D 156
1954-D FL 175 $87.45 50.0%
1954-S 50 $32.92 65.8%
1954-S FL 400 $209.20 52.3%
1955 50 $29.05 58.1%
1955 FL 200 $46.00 23.0%
1956 49
1956 FL 100 $47.10 47.1%
1957 49 $32.42 66.2%
1957 FL 100
1957-D 49
1957-D FL 70 $61.28 87.5%
1958 49 $26.00 53.1%
1958 FL 105 $36.01 34.3%
1958-D 49
1958-D FL 70 $43.63 62.3%
1959 118
1959 FL 175 $110.90 63.4%
1959-D 150
1959-D FL 165 $88.50 53.6%
1960 144 $48.00 33.3%
1960 FL 200 $148.42 74.2%
1960-D 595
1960-D FL 650 $473.38 72.8%
1961 200 $58.20 29.1%
1961 FL 1750 $611.00 34.9%
1961-D 375
1961-D FL 900
1962 245 $60.86 24.8%
1962 FL 2000
1962-D 340 $79.17 23.3%
1962-D FL 775
1963 50 $27.76 55.5%
1963 FL 795
1963-D 55 $19.25 35.0%
1963-D FL 135 $104.35 77.3%

50.0%

Trooper

Great info Frank!!!
I also thought of doing that for Morgan's but it would have been to much work for me.

Thanks
Tom

JohnZ

Wow, you put a lot of work into compiling those stats, Frank.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only persnickity one around these parts.

Bochiman

I echo that "wow!"

Thanks Frank....that is a lot of work and very good info to look at. Gives one a perspective on the pricing and series that one wouldn't have otherwise.

Ron

dpoole

Terrific work, Frank, and very helpful. An eye-opener, though it matches my suspicions...

Thanks!