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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3315115, member: 77413&quot;]<b>1991-D</b></p><p>From this point until 2011, the Dansco was roughly half filled and half empty. The only 1991 nickel in the set was the poorly struck 1991-P shown in post <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/posting-jefferson-nickels-in-order-by-date.322759/page-20#post-3313898" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/posting-jefferson-nickels-in-order-by-date.322759/page-20#post-3313898">#383</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier in this thread we discussed the vast price disparity between raw and graded examples of high-end business strikes. (While Proofs, oddly, are always selling for less than the cost of getting them graded.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading coins is a bit of a gamble. If you win and get a coin graded MS67, you enter a rarefied region of top populations. If you can find a registry collector who wants it, then you have a $100-200 coin, according to the auction records. If you miss the grade, you have a nice piece of plastic with a nickel in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other end of the scale you have dealers who sell these raw and often cut out from mint sets as &quot;Original Mint Cello&quot;. This is more of a bulk commodity market barely above the level of pocket change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday&#039;s replacement 1991-P was an online purchase for $1.40, the one posted here is $1.45, and tomorrow&#039;s proof was $2.77. Taking a look at the price charts, a 5FS at MS66 is the top of the price guide and is $170. 1991-D at MS66 6FS is $170. If these were graded MS67 they would be worthy of a high-end auction house.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what you get when you cut a random coin out of its mint set cellophane.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]878354[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]878355[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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