Besides the Greysheet or Bluesheet, are there any price guides that are worth the paper they're printed on? I've found that auction results can be all over the place sometimes, even for similar coins at similar times, depending on the people involved; and when a dealer needs to tell me a price other than what's marked on the holder, I usually see them pull out a Greysheet. What guides do you use, and why?
IMHO, recent auction results (Heritage, Ebay, whatever. . . ) will always be the best indicator of current market prices.
Greysheet numismedia wholesale and ha auction archives. None are totally reliable as an exceptional coin will be far more and a dog will be less
I wouldn't count on feebay for anything quality. It seems a lot of the coins worthwhile sell other venues. Common stuff not a bad barometer of the market tho
I'll use Heritage prices realized and the Greysheet. Bluesheet is mostly sight-unseen pricing, so I don't tend to look at that, as I buy coins that I enjoy looking at.
Actual transactions (auctions or completed ebay sales) are far more reliable than what the Greysheet has turned into. Additionally, the Bluesheet is more or less what the worst and most overgraded example of any coin in any particular grade might bring, in my opinion. I subscribed for approximately 20-years to the Greysheet and cancelled my subscription about two years ago because it was so habitually out of touch, again in my opinion.
