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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 21754, member: 68"]There's only one way to know what to pay and that is from selling. Until you sell coins you don't really know what they are worth. You are taking a dealers word on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>To get started look at the prices that dealers offer to pay in the classified ads in Coin World and the major papers and magazines. This is a sort of a base price. These prices are often very high compared to what other dealers are paying but if you have properly graded coins then these prices are really being paid. When investing you don't want to pay a great deal more than this but you'll find it usually very difficult to pay less than about 10% more. This may require a little effort since some ads will include "write for list" or the equivalent. </p><p><br /></p><p>Even collectors should sell coins from time to time since otherwise they may not really know the value of their purchases. Certainly pure collectors don't as much need to know but there's never good cause to pay more for coins than necessary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 21754, member: 68"]There's only one way to know what to pay and that is from selling. Until you sell coins you don't really know what they are worth. You are taking a dealers word on it. To get started look at the prices that dealers offer to pay in the classified ads in Coin World and the major papers and magazines. This is a sort of a base price. These prices are often very high compared to what other dealers are paying but if you have properly graded coins then these prices are really being paid. When investing you don't want to pay a great deal more than this but you'll find it usually very difficult to pay less than about 10% more. This may require a little effort since some ads will include "write for list" or the equivalent. Even collectors should sell coins from time to time since otherwise they may not really know the value of their purchases. Certainly pure collectors don't as much need to know but there's never good cause to pay more for coins than necessary.[/QUOTE]
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