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Message:: [QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 324549, member: 246"]Generally, I think the PCGS Price Guide is wishful thinking on the part of the dealers who contribute to it. I only use it when I have no other reference available and will usually knock 30% to 40% off it to come up with a real retail price. For this coin the PCGS Price Guide is way off in MS68. They list it at $70, but this is an $18-$25 coin. The guide lists $600 in MS69 and that is closer to the market price for these coins. They've been selling for $525-$575 recently. I believe they went as low as around $300 at one point, but have come back up. This is an issue which is not going to see a ton of MS69s. The coins are frequently plagued with milk spots and come with a lot of contact marks. Personally, I would not pay a premium for almost all modern commemoratives in a slab. It's just too easy to get a raw one that will grade the same with some searching. However, this coin is a tough coin to find in MS68 and MS69 and if I wanted one, it'd probably be easier to buy one slabbed. I've submitted many examples of this coin and never made an MS69 and only made a handful of MS68s. Late last year I looked thru an original box of 100 of them. I picked one for submission and it graded MS68. Most would have graded <MS66. I don't anticipate the population for MS69s exploding any time soon.[/QUOTE]