Common Proof Sets
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Most sets are dogs and somewhat difficult to sell for the price you want. Is it better to crack out the coins from a proof set and market them as singles or leave them intact as sets...
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Look at completed sales on eBay for sets and singles for those years.
Anything post 1958 or so will be too much work to break apart and sell individually.
If you can grade, that occasional banger CAM/DCAM or exceptionally gem PF might bring grading fees, auction fees +$20
Toned and varieties are on an individual basis but many common toners or unattractive varieties fit the above prediction.
Been dabbling in the small end of this pool for a few years, but I was hand selecting from dealers at shows. Left behind alot of gorgeous examples that were not good enough to get into plastic due to fees.
My advice, list them and let them go.... repurpose the $$$
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When you say "crack out" it leads me to believe you are talking 1968+ proof sets.
All I ever hear around here is that those are difficult to move.
Collector, occasional seller
I think you're right, most are dogs and you can't give them away. I see a lot of proof coins in circulation. Which must mean people breaking them out of proof sets and just spending them.
I don't think they are easier to sell as singles, unless there is a single nice coin in the set. And in that case, I might put the others into circulation
When completing my Kennedy Dansco album I had some proofs missing and I found in general the price of the proof Kennedy was the same and many times were more than the set. I stopped buying proof Kennedy's, and started just buying the sets to add the Kennedy to my albums. I put the other into proof mixed date rolls.
Some proof sets are undervalued.
I have a bunch of 68 proof sets that I have the same issue. I don’t really want to bother with selling and I’m thinking of just breaking out the silver halves and putting them in plastic tubes! I’ll probably drop the others in a coinstar machine in the future. I checked for varieties so they are just shiny pocket change to me at this point. Nobody wants them anymore!
Proof rolls do sell on ebay, as long as the postage works.
I have each of the modern proof sets, silver and clad, 1955 through 2024. I also collect the Lincoln Cents and Kennedy Half Dollars graded. I would not consider the modern sets dogs, just not one for big profits if one wants to sell, which I do not. Mintages have come down some 75% from the peak, so perhaps that helps down the line, though it is simply reflecting demand for a set that has gone from $2.10 to $40.25 in the span of 60 years.
I think there will always be demand of these, but limited demand. I personally have destroyed many mint sets putting them my albums. There are collectors that fill holes and proof singles have a place for them. I bag up my extras and sell as lots on eBay.