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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 777807, member: 68"]The price guides still don't have it right but it's a massive improvement on the price guides back in 1986 that just listed every coin for 50c. At that time a lot of them weren't worth 50c even in gem and some were impossible to locate and routinely traded higher. Over the years they've made a lot of improvements to the price guides but they still do a poor job with with the nice choice MS-63 and 64 quarters. There's a lot of demand in this area because they are very affordable and very attractive. But the guides tend to treat each date the same as though they're thinking anyone can get a mint set and all mint set coins are the same. The P's can be very tough to find in nice shape. It does make a difference whether you have to look at two mint sets or ten to find what you're looking for. </p><p><br /></p><p>They also list the toughies likeb the '69 and '82-P's too low in higher grades. The PCGS guide lists the '82 at only about $15 in MS-64 if memory serves but nice attractive MS-64's are highly elusive and this isn't much more than roll price and hardly includes slabbing. </p><p><br /></p><p>These markets used to be held back by the grading guides not keeping up but now days the guides largely just distort relative valuations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 777807, member: 68"]The price guides still don't have it right but it's a massive improvement on the price guides back in 1986 that just listed every coin for 50c. At that time a lot of them weren't worth 50c even in gem and some were impossible to locate and routinely traded higher. Over the years they've made a lot of improvements to the price guides but they still do a poor job with with the nice choice MS-63 and 64 quarters. There's a lot of demand in this area because they are very affordable and very attractive. But the guides tend to treat each date the same as though they're thinking anyone can get a mint set and all mint set coins are the same. The P's can be very tough to find in nice shape. It does make a difference whether you have to look at two mint sets or ten to find what you're looking for. They also list the toughies likeb the '69 and '82-P's too low in higher grades. The PCGS guide lists the '82 at only about $15 in MS-64 if memory serves but nice attractive MS-64's are highly elusive and this isn't much more than roll price and hardly includes slabbing. These markets used to be held back by the grading guides not keeping up but now days the guides largely just distort relative valuations.[/QUOTE]
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