Proof Sets 1957-1964 question.......

chaze215 · November 11, 2008 12:02PM

Is there anyone who has prices for proof sets for 1957-1964? Thank you in advance!

chaze215 · November 11, 2008 9:35PM

cuzzx · November 11, 2008 9:50PM

I can tell you what I paid for mine.
$13.00, $15.00, $15.50, $21.20, $35.00
sorry I don't rember the rest.
I have all with extras of each year ask about.
Are you buying from ebay or a dealer.
reason for asking this is that dealers are a bit higher.
If ebay do a back search on sold sets.
If dealers search any where but google.
1957/25.00
1958/53.00
1959/28.00
1960/ld/21.00
1960/sd/32.00
1961/15.00
1962/15.00
1963/16.00
1964/16.00

bushmaster8 · November 12, 2008 12:22AM

Proof sets are in the PCGS Price Guide online. Full retail.

UtahCoin · November 12, 2008 12:28AM

Check closed eBay auctions...

garsmith · November 12, 2008 12:32AM

<< <i>Proof sets are in the PCGS Price Guide online. Full retail. >>

Exactly

chaze215 · November 12, 2008 8:13AM

Thanks guys. I appreciate the info. Here is another stupid question, why is 1958 the most expensive?

Cameonut · November 12, 2008 8:26AM

<< <i>why is 1958 the most expensive? >>

It is not really a stupid question. I have wondered that myself. In fact the price is down significantly from a couple of years ago.
I don't know of any real reason why the set is more expensive, perhaps because it is the last of the wheat cent reverses.
I overheard once that a large marketer had bought up many many sets - hence the price increase. I have no idea whether that is true.

So for now, I don't buy any extra 1958 sets - unless, of course, there is a deep cameo in it!

SanctionII · November 12, 2008 9:04AM

One reason 1958 sets are typcially more expensive than the 57 and the 59-64 sets is the fact that 1958 has the lowest mintage of the 1957-1964 sets. The mintage is well under 1,000,000 sets. All other sets from 1957-1964 have mintages of substantially more than 1,000,000.

Even with a mintage of less than 1,000,000 (between 800K and 900K if I recall correctly), that is still a lot of proof sets. Some loss of these 1958 sets from spoilage and from melting in the 1979-80 silver run up would be present, but even taking this loss into account, there are still hundreds of thousands of sets still in existence [thus they are not by any means hard to find].

As prices of the 1957-1964 sets go up and go down, you can always expect that the price of the 1958 set will be higher than the prices for the other years.

Now, if you change your focus from run of the mill 1957-1964 proof sets containing brilliant proofs only and consider these sets with Cameo or DCAM coins (particularly the halves), the pricing for these Cameo/DCAM sets go up dramatically [unless one is lucky enough to cherry pick them at bid] with the value of the individual set depending upon which Cameo/DCAM coin you have. I would think that the most expensive of these sets would be those which contain any of the following:

1. a gem 1959 DCAM half;

2. a gem 1961 DCAM half that is a DDR;

3. a gem 1964 DCAM half that is an Accented Hair;

4. a gem 1957 DCAM cent;

5. a gem 1957 DCAM nickel;

6. a gem 1958 DCAM cent; and

7. a gem 1958 DCAM nickel.

After hunting for 1950-1970 Cameos for over 8 years now in raw proof sets [OGP and non OGP holders] I am sad to admit that I have not found a single DCAM example of any of the above listed seven coins. My best finds are a gem 1964 Cameo Accented Hair half and a gem 1959 half that has a DCAM obverse and a moderately Cameo reverse. I have never found a 1961 DDR half and have found 1957 and 1958 cents and nickels that have frosted devices which look nice, but which may not warrant a Cameo designation from a TPG.

Cherry picking 1950-1970 Cameo proof and SMS coins [and doing that same for 1936-1942 proofs] is an endeavor that reminds me of golf. You try and try and try and most of the time experience nothing but frustration. The frustration builds up so much that you are ready to chuck your gold clubs [or loupe] in the lake. However, just before you do so, you hit an outstanding golf shot [or cherrypick a DCAM coin] that gives you hope and reels you back in, with a new hope that things will get better. Once you are reeled back in, the game of golf [or cherry picking cameos] starts to beat you down and punish you all over again.

I hope to be able to attend Santa Clara on Friday. If so, I will scour the bourse for cherrys, hoping to pick up a few for modest money, thereby feeding once again the OC disorder I suffer with daily

Who knows, maybe I will stumble across the ever so elusive raw 1955 Cameo dime I have been looking for without success.

Proof Sets 1957-1964 question.......

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