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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2938283, member: 31533"]My perspective and thoughts, though from a limited experience. I found a dropped letter quarter (2008D) while CRH. It was gem uncirculated and the dropped letter was a D mintmark, located just about next to the actual mintmark. I got it slabbed and it graded MS66. When I sold it to an error collector, he said that for him (and he actually was a dealer also) that for an error like this on an uncirculated coin, the higher grade (as opposed to say a MS64 or 65) made no difference to him as to the price he was offering (around 200.00), he was buying for the error, its visibility, completeness, and clarity. Perhaps his price also reflected if it had been even high AU.</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on that, you might want to consider how rare it is, and maybe the one that sold on Heritage was on the upper limits, if not somewhat fantasy $$$. IDK. As I have been looking at more 'mundane' coins and seeing sales, just by grade, I see a lot of Heritage selling way more than by ebay or others (for PCGS slabbed ones) in many cases. Either Heritage is getting some really sweet coins for the grade and the buyers know that so they offer stronger money for a particular coin, and the ones that find their way to ebay are generally on the lower end of the grade, or there is a premium people are paying on Heritage for whatever reason.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps an idea would be to say that if one sold for similar on Heritage, knock it down by half in price and maybe then deduct 1/3 that for being below MS64. Then offer only 60-80% of that as a start. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So (if my off the cuff calculations are right)646/2=343 and 343/3=114 and 114x2=228 and 228/5=46 and 46x3=138 and 46x4=184. Therefore consider an offer in the 138-184$ range.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2938283, member: 31533"]My perspective and thoughts, though from a limited experience. I found a dropped letter quarter (2008D) while CRH. It was gem uncirculated and the dropped letter was a D mintmark, located just about next to the actual mintmark. I got it slabbed and it graded MS66. When I sold it to an error collector, he said that for him (and he actually was a dealer also) that for an error like this on an uncirculated coin, the higher grade (as opposed to say a MS64 or 65) made no difference to him as to the price he was offering (around 200.00), he was buying for the error, its visibility, completeness, and clarity. Perhaps his price also reflected if it had been even high AU. Based on that, you might want to consider how rare it is, and maybe the one that sold on Heritage was on the upper limits, if not somewhat fantasy $$$. IDK. As I have been looking at more 'mundane' coins and seeing sales, just by grade, I see a lot of Heritage selling way more than by ebay or others (for PCGS slabbed ones) in many cases. Either Heritage is getting some really sweet coins for the grade and the buyers know that so they offer stronger money for a particular coin, and the ones that find their way to ebay are generally on the lower end of the grade, or there is a premium people are paying on Heritage for whatever reason. Perhaps an idea would be to say that if one sold for similar on Heritage, knock it down by half in price and maybe then deduct 1/3 that for being below MS64. Then offer only 60-80% of that as a start. So (if my off the cuff calculations are right)646/2=343 and 343/3=114 and 114x2=228 and 228/5=46 and 46x3=138 and 46x4=184. Therefore consider an offer in the 138-184$ range.[/QUOTE]
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