"Collectors Price guide"

FYI...email rec this am..."providing ANA members a reliable retail pricing tool for collectable U.S. and Early American coinage."

http://admin.listpilot.net/mpower/showHtml.do?ac=money&id=at5b6pq_c6b737cc

 

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Woo hoo! Brilliant! 'Bout time. People who say "who needs the ANA" can stop and think.

 

Kurt,
As a fairly new (old) collector, I think the ANA provides a great service to it's members.
What should we call this "Collectors Guide"?? The yellowsheet?

 

About the time the ownership changed, I'll bet. CDN and the ANA have been working closer together for some time now (says the guy who distributed gratis Grey Sheets to every table at recent conventions).

 

Got that email this morning. Hopefully it will be an enticement to get more ANA members.

 

USACOINBOOK.COM has the least inflated retail price guide I ever seen online, and it is an excellent tool as far as ease of use and completeness go. Also, you can jump from any given type coin date and mint mark and variety to see the actual listings , which are almost always less than what is shown to you, but by a small consistent factor.
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I think that what the ANA is doing is admirable, but for the beginning or young or borderline collector who is trying to make a decision whether or not this is to become a serious and or lifelong pursuit, having to pay for such a guide goes against the very grain of American retail practices. if you want my business on anything, you should either publish your prices for me in a good place and or advertise.
Just my opinion as a small online dealer...
Bill - http://SilverWilliesCoins.com

 

I'm gonna hafta go all "economic language" on ya. What is the marginal cost of these listings? To any ANA member or life member, it is zero, free, gratis. What is it if you're not an ANA member? Good question. Here's an even better question: What the... You're NOT already an ANA member and you have the temerity to call yourself a numismatist?!? !Ay caramba!

 

I'd like to see a demographic chart of ANA membership.

 

It would look something like this:

 

The judging meeting room would suggest otherwise. Even the new guy teaching exhibit judging is about 40.

 

it's jokes!

 

Yeah, ANA membership is down, proof set sales are down, uncirculated set sales are approaching moribund status, publication subscriptions are a fourth of what they were, but hey, it's all good. The Internet's gonna save us all! Whoopee! I'm tellin' ya, if the quality of the thinking on here is any sample of the Internet's contribution to the coin hobby, we're not just falling to the ground, we're pegging the tachometer accelerating the hobby into a crater.

 

Face it, you're retired.

 

of course with a possible 0.5% margin of error. Your research skills clearly slam the lid on this one. Thank you.

 

What does this mean to the casual collector (cents to halves) cheech

 

To me, it means "cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and halves", but that excludes several obsolete denominations that were once part of the range.

 

USAcoinbook.com includes half cents 2 cent pieces, 3 cent, half dimes, 20 cent, also all dollars and all gold... phenomenal resource. And you have to PAY for the incomplete?

 

Not reading the press release, eh? I have no idea where cheech's question came from (left field?). I just answered it.