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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hkiefus, post: 754222, member: 21962&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Forgive me if this question has already been asked and answered, but I am new and the ‘Search’ function didn’t produce any fruit (nor did various Google searches).</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">My question is simple: does BU = MS 60?</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I’m a relatively new collector and have been working on acquiring sets of this grade starting from the moderns (US issue) and working backward.&nbsp; If we look at your typical eBay listing, you see items that have included the BU moniker.&nbsp; I’ve already learned that a lot of ‘BU’ items are really perhaps only AU, whether intentional or due to ignorance (but I have seen a high degree of correlation between the more scarce years/mint marks and AU coins).&nbsp; So I’m now intimate with the term ‘slider’.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Anyhow, I’m now looking for a set of Franklins and I have a couple of vendors who have given me a price for their sets.&nbsp; The trouble is, they both have said that their set is ‘above average BU’ (and their prices reflect such when compared to Greysheet).&nbsp; So I have asked their clarification on what ‘above average BU means’ but have yet to receive a response.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">If it wasn’t for Greysheet (or Redbook) I wouldn’t have any idea if a coin were worth $2, $20, or $200, so I use it and the percentage a given offer is at relative to ‘bid’ as to whether the deal is worth it or not.&nbsp; So, when a set is listed as BU, I’ll look in the Monthly’s ‘Single Sets and Roll Sets’ section.&nbsp; But if I’m to take what I’m told at face value, I really should be adding up all of the individual prices in the Supplement’s ‘Franklin Half Dollar’ section.&nbsp; But the trouble is “what’s above average BU” as far as the Sheldon Scale goes?&nbsp; I mean on a strictly numeric value average is MS 65 right?&nbsp; Or if we were to look at it from a population perspective, it would be lower, perhaps MS 61.&nbsp; So I guess I need to be pricing based on an MS63 or MS67 (yea right) grade.&nbsp; And even then, this assumes that the coins would grade out as the seller assumes.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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