I've been buying annual proof sets and silver proof sets from the us mint since 1990. I just recently decided to try a trial version of a coin program to help keep track of these and some other proofs and older circulated coins I've collected over the years. The two programs I am "demoing" (trial versions) are Coin manage 2009 and Pro-Coin. My main reason for the programs was to get online price updates, however both programs seem to require knowing the "grade" of the coin. In order to update the value (seems if I manually type in a value from a magazine it won't update the manually input values). Is there a average basic "grade" I can assume for these sets? There is no way I am going to put out the money to have all these coins graded. I've searched the net for a few different coins and a silver bullion I have and there seems to be quite a large difference in sales prices of some of these. One in particular, I have a wallstreet 10 ounce silver bullion I bought in 2004 and I saw it for sale in different places on the net from $139 to almost $500. Thanks ~Mike
If they are in the original proof sets they are probably PR67-69. The only real reason people grade proof sets is for registry sets
Then you might as well forget the idea because the prices any of those programs use are pretty much worthless. They will all either be way too high or too low. Coin collection software has many uses such as creating organized lists of your collection, keeping track of purchase & sales dates, organizing pictures of your collection,bing able to print out reports etc etc. But for pricing they are worthless.
Why are they worthless? And what do you recommend as a worthwhile source of pricing - bearing in mind that the OP intent was to have a software based application that would update pricing? Thanks in advance for the answers and opinions...
