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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 671133, member: 4703"]No print catalog/price guide can possibly be completely accurate - prices actually paid for coins vary daily, or even hourly, and print materials take a finite time to produce and distribute.</p><p><br /></p><p>Theoretically an accurate internet site is possible, but no way is it feasible. To be an "accurate" price guide, it would have to list every sale of every coin worldwide, specifying its TPG grade, if any, and providing a set of clear photos/scans showing it in different lighting situations to allow an honest comparison with the one being evaluated. Gimme a break!</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, the true value of a specific coin to specific sellers and buyers [aside from condition and rarity] is dependent in part on <ul> <li>Where in the world it is located</li> <li>Where the potential buyer is</li> <li>What language(s) the parties speak</li> <li>The cost of getting the coin to the buyer</li> <li>How urgently the seller needs to sell</li> <li>How desperately the buyer needs that coin in that condition, and</li> <li>Who knows how many other factors I haven't mentioned.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Bottom line, as stated many, many times in many, many threads, catalogs, prices lists, reports of auction sales, etc., are all merely GUIDES, affording no certainty whatsoever as to a fair price for a new transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are looking for is as unlikely to exist as an undiscovered hoard of PF70 Brasher's Doubloons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 671133, member: 4703"]No print catalog/price guide can possibly be completely accurate - prices actually paid for coins vary daily, or even hourly, and print materials take a finite time to produce and distribute. Theoretically an accurate internet site is possible, but no way is it feasible. To be an "accurate" price guide, it would have to list every sale of every coin worldwide, specifying its TPG grade, if any, and providing a set of clear photos/scans showing it in different lighting situations to allow an honest comparison with the one being evaluated. Gimme a break! In addition, the true value of a specific coin to specific sellers and buyers [aside from condition and rarity] is dependent in part on[list]Where in the world it is located[*]Where the potential buyer is[*]What language(s) the parties speak[*]The cost of getting the coin to the buyer[*]How urgently the seller needs to sell[*]How desperately the buyer needs that coin in that condition, and[*]Who knows how many other factors I haven't mentioned.[/list] Bottom line, as stated many, many times in many, many threads, catalogs, prices lists, reports of auction sales, etc., are all merely GUIDES, affording no certainty whatsoever as to a fair price for a new transaction. What you are looking for is as unlikely to exist as an undiscovered hoard of PF70 Brasher's Doubloons.[/QUOTE]
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