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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3237111, member: 77413&quot;]I thought so as well. But, then, things get crazy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say I bought the untoned one from an online store, let&#039;s call it Dave&#039;s, as an unslabbed &quot;Choice BU&quot; for $2.12. The purple one was from eBay at $4.52. I hope I&#039;m right that you are referring to the toned one, but they are both terrific.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then let&#039;s say, just for fun, that I go to NGC Coin Explorer and look at the values. They don&#039;t even give a price guideline for MS67. They stop at MS66 for $325.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, then I follow some of the auction links to see if this looks like an MS66. There aren&#039;t many where I looked, but I find a <a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/jefferson-nickels/1969-s-5c-ms66-pcgs-pcgs-population-36-1-ngc-census-28-2-mintage-123-009-632-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-fr/a/1137-7351.s?type=NGC1137" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/jefferson-nickels/1969-s-5c-ms66-pcgs-pcgs-population-36-1-ngc-census-28-2-mintage-123-009-632-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-fr/a/1137-7351.s?type=NGC1137" rel="nofollow">sale of an MS66 at Heritage</a> in 2010. That&#039;s for $345. Great Collections sold an MS66 in 2013 for $220. Neither has ever sold an MS67.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am left to conclude that an MS67 price would be exponentially higher. NGC has only graded three of them, and PCGS one, after all. So for a Top Pop coin - four figures? PCGS suggests $3,850.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yes, I am just puzzled. On the one hand I am picking up beautiful gems online and at coin shows for under $5 each. All four 69-S coins together totaled less than $15. On the other hand I see high-end sales for hundreds of dollars for coins that I feel don&#039;t measure up to my $2-$5 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I understand the coin market a little less with every coin I buy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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