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On 1/15/2022 at 1:30 PM, Coinbuf said:

I think your tripping yourself up on a couple of verbiage issues, the first being the idea of "moving" your set.   Your current custom set is not moving or changing in any way, it will remain just as it is.   What you are doing is starting a new set (or sets) in the competitive section of the registry, nothing is moving you are just using those same coins to populate a new set.   And no you do not have to enter each line.   Read what I wrote again; I noted that you can use the autobuild option and that will populate each line that it can from your inventory of coins.   So once you select a set to start you click on the autobuild button that you can see on the top right of the second screen shot above.

Second I'm not sure that you are clear on how the inventory system works.   When you entered your coins in your custom set you were building your coin inventory at the same time, it is entering all that coin inventory information that takes time.   So that inventory is there and you are not going to have to enter each coin line by line for any further sets that you choose to start in the future.   The autobuild will automatically use the best coin from the coins in your inventory to fill every slot it can.   Let's say for example that you have two 1881-S Morgan dollars one graded MS65 and one MS64; the autobuild will use the MS65 coin as it has a higher point total.   However, if you want the MS64 coin in the set because you like it better you can change to it by simply clicking on that + sign at the right of each row and select the MS64 coin.   The registry is very flexible and provides you with many options on how your sets look and score.

I can start and autobuild a new set in four or five minutes at most, it really is very easy and once you build your first set I think you will understand it better.

Coinbuf - thank you, your guidance was great and my situation was exactly what you described.  My eligible coins have since been transferred to a competitive set.

Part of my confusion was that I have a lot of U.S. Mint proof sets, uncirculated sets and uncirculated (non-NCG) coins which are not, "competitive."

My story:  My Dad was a huge collector, collected many various coins, passed and then passed them to me - I am now just taking this set over (and am not wanting to simply go to a, "coin dealer" to value or sell them).

An unfortunate side to, "my story:"  When the State Quarters program first started, my Dad FULLY bought into the fact that this would be a grand investment/venture.  Unfortunately, as you know, this was not the case - I have several, several dozens of U.S. Mint wrapped/packaged State Quarters.  What are your thoughts on those?  Should I just hold them, pass them to my children, and hope they will have value for them or their children?  Or, will they likely never have true-value increase and find an outlet to sell them now (they do take quite a bit of space in my collection?

Thanks again ~

Craig

On 1/15/2022 at 8:16 AM, Quintus Arrius said:

Agreed. Time to play Rooster Chess!  🐓 

I appreciate your guidance - so (just to make sure), there is no, "easy way" to, "move" my custom sets to a competitive set - one by one add only, right?

Hello to all.  I created my (very large) coin set as a Custom Set (maybe a newbie mistake); of course this took a long time to do so.

Is there an easy way to convert my Custom Set to a Competitive Set (so that I can see what, "interest" level my set would bring)?  Of course, I am trying to do this without having to re-enter hundreds of coins...

Any insight or help would be appreciated - thanks much!

14 hours ago, VKurtB said:

I’d keep them as they are until you gain the knowledge and experience to recognize a likely MS67 or 68 coin. I avoided even discussing MS69, because they are ridiculously rare. In most years they actually don’t exist. My 2019-W uncirculated Lincoln Cent made MS69, but those were specially handled. 

Agreed, thank you.  With having several, several dozens U.S. Mint wrapped/sealed state quarter rolls, I will remain skeptically hopeful.

12 minutes ago, VKurtB said:

In a word, don’t. It is extremely odd that any state quarter would be worth having graded. MS67 would be pretty much a breakeven coin. You’d need an MS68 to make it worth doing.

Thanks so much for the advice.  In your opinion or experience, do uncirculated/unopened U.S. Mint coins (generally) grade at a certain level (or is there no way to tell/know)?  With your input, I will not be spending the cash to grade a state quarter.  I was hoping for some good news on state quarters - my Dad had passed down several, several U.S. Mint boxes containing state quarters.  I will likely just hold onto them and pass them down to future generations in hope that something will happen to make them valuable enough to take action.  Thanks again.

I have several unopened, uncirculated (a.k.a. U.S. Mint sealed) state quarters.  There are some online sources (Youtube - JB Coins) that state there are some state quarters (e.g. 2003 Missouri "P") that can be valuable in higher MS condition.

My question, with my unopened, direct from the U.S. Mint rolls, would it be worthwhile to send these to have graded?  If they are unopened & sealed directly from the U.S. Mint, should they not grade fairly high?