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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 24580581, member: 20201&quot;]Came home with these yesterday from a local coin auction. They were all I came home with, and all I went for, but I now have a complete set of Franklin Half Dollars in Uncirculated and now all the Proofs.</p><p>It only took me 40 years to get the <b>1950, 51, 52</b> and <b>53 Proof Franklins.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>There are many coins that far outperformed these over 40 years.</p><p><b><font size="4">I wish there was a graph of values on the internet someplace for seeing certain coin appreciations and depreciations year by year.</font></b></p><p>Do you know of one?</p><p>I looked but have to go by memory.</p><p>Gold or silver purchased back then has far outperformed. Maybe now was a good time to buy? Better late than never.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think I hurt myself any waiting so long to buy. These sets were pretty high decades ago but I don&#039;t think inflation and the value of the US dollar would have made them a good investment. I got a good price yesterday, they were not cheap, but far better than eBay, or a coin show or coin shop price tag would ask today. They were nicer than the internet pictures shown on Auctionzip.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, no black carbon spots, some coins are perhaps light cameo or frosted. No black tarnish from original cello and box issues. They don&#039;t looked dipped to remove such either.</p><p>Of course, I bought them for the Franklins, and the lead the parade of my US Proof Sets, but they will stay in the sets like all my other Franklin proofs to 1963.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bucket List check off!</p><p><font size="3"><i>(hard to photograph) but here they are ... </i>click for larger</font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1560206[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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