1983 uncirculated sets

Mikey

Since the US Mint didn't release this year in an uncirculated set, there are lots of independently packaged sets. Is it worth keeping these intact? Since there is no company name on the one I have, how can any value be decided?

fivecents

The only aftermarket sets I have seen were put out by Krause. I would not break these sets up.
My WAG on the price of these sets would be in the $32 - $45 range.

TWODOGS

I've got a couple of sets in which the coins look like they were pulled from the reject bin. Almost every coin came from dies with extreme fatigue. The lettering on some is almost twice as wide as normal.

The coins were SO poorly struck, I HAD to own them.

FC57Coins

Weren't there souvenier sets made for the Denver and Philly mint at these mints?

cladking

Krause put out quite a few sets and the quality is often quite good. Paul and Judys Coins
of Arcola, Illinois also made quite a few sets. These are in white envelopes with blue and
red at the corner. These are an excellent source for good quality cents and Philly quarters.
There are also a few type "d" reverse Denver and Philly quarters in these. The Philly mint
made about 10,000 souvenir sets. There are some choice dimes in these but the other coins
tend to be pretty typical most of the time. Denver made 15,000 of these sets and quality is
good. There are at least three other types but I've seen no more than a few of them.

In the long run all the mint sets will trade on the basis of the coins in the set. Now many of
the regular issue mint sets sell at a steep discount to the cons they contain and a few trade
at a huge premium.

jdimmick

I bought one of those krause sets when I was visiting an old coin shop turned baseball card shop in Whichita, KS about two years ago. The 83-P quarter was pretty nice, it graded Ms-66 at PCGS. Sold it, but sold it too cheap at 75.00. (didnt know that , till after I sold it )

jim

cupronik

I'm told the 1983 sets in cellophane bring good money on E-Bay.
A friend said he's received anywhere from $75/+ for the occasional
set he lists.

Cupronik

cladking

The souvenir sets are starting to get a lot of attention also. There are a lot of
people putting together date runs of mint sets and when they learn of the ex-
istence of the officially issued souvenir sets they one them. Many of these sets
have been cut up to make the date/mm sets of the various denominations so
there are not large numbers remaining. I've seen dealers offering as much as
$50 for either dated pair of sets.

There are many other dates of souvenir sets which are much tougher, but there
isn't as much demand.