Looking on ebay I see a wide range of pricing for the Souvenir sets and I was wondering if there is an official price guide to check pricing to see if its fare? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-P-Phi...al-Envelope-/312817026738?hash=item48d55906b2 I think the price on this 1998 set is just a little bit on the high side.
You can find out on Ebay what the last ones sold for went and it was allot cheaper than that. go to advanced over on left side and click it..
Here is a price guide. Good for relative values between one set and another. I wouldn't pay more than, say, 60-70% of these values if I really wanted a set and I wouldn't expect to get more than , say, 50% of these values if I was trading/selling a set to a dealer. http://numismedia.com/fmv/pricesms/sets/prices.shtml I see that they only include some of the souvenir sets.
It only list the 82 and 83 sets because there were no mint sets those years, but the souvenir sets were made over a much longer period. The only time I have seen a price list on these was years ago in an issue of Coins Magazine.
Souvenir sets are hot now days and most in good shape will bring 7 - $10. The '87 is very common and these are a little lower. The "4" '82 and '83's are about $170 wholesale and typically trade over $200. Some of the later dates are very scarce and sell for big bucks. The '72 is tough and can get pricey. If I remember correctly both '97's are scarce. I've seen set go for over $200 and some of the toughest just don't trade much at all. I've said before that there are no Gem '83 quarters in souvenir sets but this isn't strictly true. I just forgot I had found one. Sets with Gems can trade for far more and some later dates are said to have burnished PL's in them. "Burnished PL's can be common in regular mint sets but who knows what's in all these sets. I'll tell you another thing about souvenir sets that make them potentially quite valuable. Mint set Gems tend to have a very similar look. They are well made from quality dies and have a full strike. Souvenir set coins are wholly different. For inmstance back in 1980 NOBODY was setting aside clads and fewer than nobody was looking for Gems. Any Gems of something like a 1980-D dime will come from a few mint sets that survive. However I just happened to look through hundreds of souvenir sets at the mint and pulled out several that were highly gemmy (technically MS-67 but without the perfect strike). There could be a demand for such coins in the future and they will be very rare. I looked through nearly 10% of the entire mintage and found only five or six of these. I nabbed a few Gem quarters, halfs, and nickels as well. Didn't see any cents. Many of these sets just don't survive any longer because coin dealers spent the coins and sold the mint medal for a dollar or two. Before 1982 it's unlikely any of these sets had mintages over about 8,000.
