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<p>[QUOTE="sakata, post: 2650288, member: 23778"]Here is what I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Go online for a used book website (such as Bookfinders.com) and look for old copies if the standard catalog. If you are patient you can find each of them for less than $10. This gives you a list of all coins except for the very latest, but the prices will be out of date. There is plenty of information about each country at the start of that country's listing.s</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Subscribe to Numismater.com for about $70 a year. This is the online version of the Standard Catalog. A little pricey if you don't use it a lot, but I do. The search feature on this site allows me to identify almost any coin in a minute or so. Knowing what it is allows me to then go to the printed version for any additional information if I need it, but I rarely do.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Use E-Bay and various other auction sites to determine a current price for the coin. Most common coins are sold there and even rarer ones can be found if you know what you are looking for.</p><p><br /></p><p>This three way approach has served me well for many years and there are very few coins I cannot identify and price in just a few minutes. Some obscure ones take longer. The only real expense is the annual subscription to Numismaster, but I consider that a good investment because it saves me time and money to be able to identify and prices coins so quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that the Standard Catalog prices are dealer prices. These are not the same as you can expect on Ebay and they are very different from what you can expect to sell them for if you want to do so. I have often thought that a blue book version of the standard catalog would be a good idea. The printed version is really the red book version.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sakata, post: 2650288, member: 23778"]Here is what I do. 1. Go online for a used book website (such as Bookfinders.com) and look for old copies if the standard catalog. If you are patient you can find each of them for less than $10. This gives you a list of all coins except for the very latest, but the prices will be out of date. There is plenty of information about each country at the start of that country's listing.s 2. Subscribe to Numismater.com for about $70 a year. This is the online version of the Standard Catalog. A little pricey if you don't use it a lot, but I do. The search feature on this site allows me to identify almost any coin in a minute or so. Knowing what it is allows me to then go to the printed version for any additional information if I need it, but I rarely do. 3. Use E-Bay and various other auction sites to determine a current price for the coin. Most common coins are sold there and even rarer ones can be found if you know what you are looking for. This three way approach has served me well for many years and there are very few coins I cannot identify and price in just a few minutes. Some obscure ones take longer. The only real expense is the annual subscription to Numismaster, but I consider that a good investment because it saves me time and money to be able to identify and prices coins so quickly. Remember that the Standard Catalog prices are dealer prices. These are not the same as you can expect on Ebay and they are very different from what you can expect to sell them for if you want to do so. I have often thought that a blue book version of the standard catalog would be a good idea. The printed version is really the red book version.[/QUOTE]
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