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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1701475, member: 112&quot;]BigTee - </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re asking a question that has been asked a thousand times if it&#039;s been asked once. And the answer is always the same - it varies, and it varies greatly. And while it may sound redundant it varies greatly because there are so very, very, many variables involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all you have the coin itself, is it a key, a semi-key, or a generic example. Then you have the availability, and no, bfore you ask, just because it&#039;s a key does not mean that it is not readily available. You can purchase just about any key every day of the week, provided you are willing to pay the asking price. The you have availability of grade, some coins, even keys, are readily available in high grade and some are not. And some are readily available in low grade, and some are not. Then you have the type of problem. There are many different things that can make a coin a problem coin, and some are worse than others. Then you have the degree of severity for that particular problem. The list goes on and on.</p><p><br /></p><p>These same things are all true for problem free coins and all of them must be considered when purchasing a coin - any coin problem free or not. And each and every coin must considered individually because of all these variables. Therefore there is no rule of thumb for anyone to go by. About the best you can say is that a problem coin will be worth 20%-80% of what a similar problem free example would be worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now at first glance one might think that&#039;s a pretty wide range, a huge range even. But it isn&#039;t. And it isn&#039;t because even 2 problem free examples of the very same coin, in the same grade, graded by the same TPG, can vary in price by as much as 100%, and they do so quite often.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I know that probably doesn&#039;t help you and it isn&#039;t what you wanted to hear. But that&#039;s because there is no help, there just isn&#039;t. You can pick any specific problem coin you want and ask 100 people what that coin is worth, and I&#039;d say you could count on getting at least 50 different answers, maybe more. And that&#039;s because for all of those people the coin is only worth so much. And some wouldn&#039;t buy it all, at any price. </p><p><br /></p><p>Everybody has a different priority. Some people have to fill the hole no matter what. Some people don&#039;t care if the hole is filled or not. And some people could go either way. And still others don&#039;t collect sets for these very reasons, it&#039;s just simpler &amp; easier not to do it. They prefer to just collect coins, but only coins that they like, and they could care less about sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these things are variables too, and they matter when trying to get an answer to your question. So the simple answer is, there is no answer. Only you can decide - for you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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