Hello, I'm interested in what is the typical grade for a US Mint sealed coin? From what I have read possibly MS 68-69. I'm not looking to get any graded, but wondering what the acceptable understanding of their value.
The typical grade for MS business strike coins will be anywhere from mid to low MS 62-64/65. The better ones will be 66 possibly 67 depending on the series, and 68s/69 will be exceedingly rare in many business strike series. If you were referring to something like ultra modern commemoratives than yes 68/69 would be accurate
Proof would (and should) be in the MS-68 to 70 range. Business strikes (Mint sets) are mostly in the MS-64 to 67 range. Or they used to be.
If you are looking at mint sets from the late 1970s to the early ‘80s, many of those coins were terrible. Some looked like they had been run over with track shoes and lucky to make MS-60 or 61.
clarification ... Proofs should have the prefix of "PF" .. so PF-68 to 70 "MS" for regular (non Proof) Mint Strike coins.
If I'm understanding the meaning behind your question, you're asking if coins that you can buy directly from the mint are of high enough grades that they are truly worth something, more than what you pay for them in other words. Would that be correct ? Well, if it is, the answer is - most of the time - no, they are not. And if you were to wait a few years after you bought them, what you'd find out is that most of the time they were worth less than you paid for them to begin with. Is this always true ? No, but that's why I said most of the time. Sure, there are times when a coin is special, of a high enough grade to be worth many times what it was when it was purchased from the mint. But those times are very few and far between.
It really depends on the when the mint sealed sets were produced. Recent years tend to have higher average grades, older sets can easily have 61's or 62's.
I have mid 50's sets not open yet. As well as early mint sets 60 and up. In hine site. Would you care to guess what these might be. In general
Low to maybe mid low MS if the packaging didn't ruin them. The older the set the less likely a high quality or one of the better coins for that series is in it.
Mid 50's sets, the average grade is probably going to be around 63 with a few higher and a few lower.
Yeah. Sounds right. Mom meant well. Thats why i never opened any of them. When i discovered them. My sisters said as a group, to leave them left as we got them and pass them on. I feel really good about our discussion. Opening a time capsule will be a charge for whom ever
