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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 2199024, member: 24544&quot;]Ok, so here is my best guess at giving you a dollar figure.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be honest, I have no idea why you would take my advice as I have never done what you are asking and have no experience with it, but here goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the set includes all coins in g4, Price from retail portion of numismedia.com</p><p>1909 s: $75 in g4</p><p>1909 s vdb : $680</p><p>1911 s : $25</p><p>1914 d: $150</p><p>1922: $575</p><p><br /></p><p>Sold on ebay as acutal prices:</p><p><br /></p><p>1909 s: f12 PCGS on ebay sold for $76</p><p>1909 s vdb: NGC f12 on ebay sold for $585</p><p>1911 s: raw but probably vf sold for $23 on ebay</p><p>1914 d: NGC vg10 sold on ebay for $169</p><p>1922 no d weak reverse NGC10 sold for $300 on ebay</p><p>1922 no d strong reverse NGC10 sold for $695</p><p><br /></p><p>All the other coins in the full set I do not think would add any value.&nbsp; The market for selling this as a complete set would be other people looking to buy it, pull out the key dates and resell for a profit.&nbsp; There is almost no collector appeal to buying a complete set, it&#039;s just not what people like to do. The fun of collecting is chasing the coins, filling the holes, and taking the time to do it as a hobby.&nbsp; Compete sets are only bought by people looking to resell for a profit.&nbsp; Group lots always go for less than selling each coin individually.</p><p><br /></p><p>So basically, numismedia in g4 totals $1505.&nbsp; If I were to seriously try to buy these raw in g4, I think this value is probably 50% too high, if you actually tried to sell them on ebay as raw coins I think you may get $750.&nbsp; So to make it worth my time to flip these, I would want to be into all those coins for 50% of that, or $375.&nbsp; But I would only try to do this if I was an expert on the series and grading, which I&#039;m not, so I would not buy a raw g4 set of Lincolns for any amount of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to the graded versions.&nbsp; If you have some expertise in identifying genuine examples of those coins, as there are a ton of fakes, and you can grade extremely accurately, then you could buy those coins raw, grade them, and sell them on ebay.&nbsp; That vg10ish set sold for $1153 (weak reverse) or $1548 (strong reverse).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, 6 coins which you would have to get graded to realize those prices would run you around $300 in grading fees.&nbsp; Assuming you did not get burned on authenticity/grade/details and all coins graded cleanly at the grade you expected, you would have $1548 - $300 in value, so $1248.&nbsp; Again, I would want to be into these for 50% of that, so I would buy them for $642.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, to answer your question, I would only buy your complete set to flip these.&nbsp; So I would be looking to buy the compete set (strong reverse 1922 no d) with those keys graded at vg10 for around $774(50% of $1548).&nbsp; I would have no interest in raw coins, and I would only be interested in the set so that I could sell the keys and make money.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may ask why I choose 50%, that is just my line for buying coins to resell.&nbsp; I figure I&#039;m out 15% to 20% on fees when I sell which leaves me with 30% profit margin.&nbsp; That is enough wiggle room for me when I purchase with the intent of selling in an area where I know what I&#039;m doing. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reality is, the only way to know how much to pay for this is to do it yourself and learn.&nbsp; However, as everyone else in this thread has told you, If I were trying to make money on Lincoln cents I would not try to put together a complete set for re-sale, in fact I would do the opposite and look for complete sets that I could pull apart for re-sale.&nbsp; The market for complete sets is almost non-existent, and any interest would come from people looking to profit off your sale.&nbsp; As a dealer, you have to find a way to buy coins from people not interested in the profit and sell to people not interested in the profit, which is exactly the opposite of building a complete set and selling it as a complete set.&nbsp; You are getting such negative responses because your approach to making money on Lincolns runs exactly counter to how most people would try to profit off coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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