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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7833822, member: 101855&quot;]The thing about the classic commemoratives is that they are available in such high grades. I have a complete 50 piece type set on the NGC registry in grades ranging from MS-63 to MS-66, yet my set ranks something like 96. That is by far the lowest ranking I have for any of my sets. </p><p><br /></p><p>My “key coins”, like the Hawaiian and Hudson, are graded MS-64. My Spanish Trail is an MS-66, and my Lafayette Dollar is graded MS-63. The set is not junk, but you can see that it does not amount to much in the grand order of things. </p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, I am glad that I did not buy better coins when I was building the set. If I had, I would have been down even more money than I am now. Prices on these coins have dropped like a rock. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I was retiring and going out of business, I had to blow the commemorative half dollars out for as little as 20% under Greysheet bid get rid of them. If the dealers to whom I sold them had held them, they would be losing money now according to the Greysheet prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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