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Message:: [QUOTE="dannic113, post: 1371675, member: 35203"]Just to answer some of your questions without seeing the coins. Red Book is a great ANA grading source and information source. The prices in there are based on speculation of what the coins hope to be worth someday. Only problem is they don't say how soon or late that date will be. The Blue Book is a better idea of what a dealer will pay for the coins for collectors add 10-20% sometimes more. The greysheet (also known as the CDN or coin dealer newsletter) is the best option as 9 out of 10 dealers use this tool to acurately price coins. You can get a current one for about $4. Using CDN BID prices (not retail ASK prices) the 17-D is around a hundred less. The 36-D with FB in 64 is $80 as for the 43 trumpet S that's a variety and not listed however in order to shoot for the $500+ mark most collectors are going to want a 65 FB as a normal 65 without FB designation is only $400 in the cherrypickers guide. I have a MS63 minimum grade no FB and can't find a dealer to buy it because not 1 in 100 people are going to walk in the door and ask for one. That would be a collector to collector or ebay, stacks, HA kind of deal. Finally the 45 on this one the FB drives the price. MS64 and 65's are just too common in contrast to getting that elusive FB. In fact it's not just that year almost all 64FB's after about 1923 command more than MS65 without. Here again though the prices are off 64FB $3800 MS65 $23 and 65FB comes in at $8,000. Having said all that it means nothing if the coins are not in those grades or demand those attributes plain and simple. In fact NGC requires all horizontal bands to be full and split while PCGS will let the upper and lower slide as long as the "belt" or middle bands are complete. Although grading changes year to year so this may not be 100% accurate and my opinion based on reading their websites on grading.[/QUOTE]

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