I need your opinion - Lincoln cent collection
Alshouse
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I've found it fun to put Lincoln cent collections together, sell them and start again. I am now putting together, perhaps, the best collection ever condition wise. The only coins missing are 1909s-vdb and the 1922 plain. Earlier coins weaker with a few exceptions. 50's to 2016 Unc including some proof coins. All "S" coins included. All in a brand new Dansco album which I tend to prefer above all others. What value would you place on it? 2nd question, do you prefer another type album?
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I could not even begin to answer that.
You may just search ebay for a close answer. I'd just type in Lincoln dansco and it should show some full album sales.
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Hello Alshouse; If you are serious about best-ever condition-wise, the coins you seek will very likely be in PCGS slabs. Please go to www.pcgs.com/coinfacts and take a look at Lincoln cents to see what you are up against population-wise and price-wise. If you can rise to those occasions, more power to you! (And no, don't put them in a Dansco.)
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I think he means the best collection he has put together, not the top all-time registry set.
There is no way to answer this question without a better idea of condition of the keys you say you have, 14-
d, 31-S, and most of the 20's-S dates. Best wag is $500-$600.
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"Putting together a set of Lincolns" while missing the keys is kind of like "running a marathon" yet only jogging the first few miles before quitting.
I sold my complete Dansco collection (1909 - 2007, including proofs...no MPL's) for around $2400 last year. For no particular reason I chose BN coins through 1940, full red afterwards. Below are a few pages.
The value of such a set is primarily about the keys. Subtract a couple, like the S-VDB, 14-D, and 22 plain and you're looking at a lot less.
Lance.
How much demand is there for sets like that with key coins missing? Value will depend on the condition of any key or semi-key coins. The common dates will bring very little. No estimation of value is possible without seeing the coins.
I have both a raw and slab set of Lincolns. But I can tell you from experience that putting together a high grade set gets very expensive unless you are an expert in recognizing cleaned, counterfeit and altered cents. After 50 + years, I am not, but I got wise years ago after get burnt on some raw coin purchases. If you go raw, but the keys graded, unless your the expert I am still educating myself to be.
WS
You may not be an expert at recognizing cleaned coins, but I am quite certain you could cherrypick a 1911 d/d cent from the distance of a city block!
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I cannot answer the value question...However, that will be an attractive set, providing you eventually include the keys. I am sure if you study ebay auction records, you can add to the information offered above. Good luck, Cheers, RickO
Question 1
The question is impossible to answer. The grade of the coins is paramount and without the grades, it's just a theoretical exercise with minimal data.
Assuming you are also missing the 1955 doubled die, the missing coins are where the great value of the set resides. The condition of the 1914-D (assuming it's authentic) will likely be a large percentage of the value.
Question 2
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See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
The question is easy to answer without a specific number. Take the key date and semi key dates. Take greysheet bid on those coins, subtract about 10% and consider the other coins free.
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Greysheet bid of the keys and semi-keys at what grade? Recall the OP's description of the set as "... the best collection ever condition wise." What does that mean ... F-VF or EF-AU or MS Red? The variance is price is so great that a reasonably accurate guess is not possible. Sure, a 'cheap and safe' buy price can be guessed, but is not in the OP's best interest.
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
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Whatever grade they are. I can't give him the exact number without the grade, but he has them right here.
I think he just means it was the highest grade set he ever put together. He talks about liking to do this.
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The last time I checked (within the past year), you could buy a Lincoln Wheat collection without the few key dates for $3-400 in an album.
I've enjoyed working on a set. I started it in the early 1950's. All coins in my set are obtained in the wild (no proofs) and I'm missing two coins, 09svdb and 14d. Funny that I had two 14d's and decided to sell one only later to realize the one I kept was a altered date 1944d. Sold the real one! I was young about 10 when this happened. Still looking for the two and stopped the set some years ago.
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I do have a complete raw wheat set (except the 09s vdb which is slabbed). The 09s vdb is a MS 64RD in PCGS which is easily worth more than the rest of the set combined. Most of the coins in my set from 09 to the early 30's are probably VF's on the average, from the early 30's to late 40's XF's to AU's, after that they are all MS. "Extremely easy to assemble at a very low cost. Pics on request.
Regarding you question on album types. I like the Littleton albums for the Lincoln cent series. The Green covers and lighter ivory colored pages look much better with the cent series. (IMO). I have a mix of albums for my raw sets. Whitman, Littleton, InterShield and Dansco. (All archival quality albums)
We would need to see images of representative coins in order to give a meaningful answer but @jmlanzaf nailed it for the most part.
I like the dansco albums