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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2808021, member: 80804&quot;]The Krause SCWC catalog(s) is(are) a great ID resource, but I would trust the real world accuracy of the &quot;prices&quot; quoted less than I would trust the accuracy of the prices in a Redbook. Mainly, in the <i>real</i> world, only those in very limited situations would ever pay the sort of top-dollar brick-and-mortar-store prices you see listed. If they had it and you could order it, I&#039;d expect to see Littleton charge that sort of price.&nbsp; In the actual marketplace, however, a rational &quot;retail&quot; price is probably on the order of 1/2 of what you see in the SCWC&#039;s - unless, it&#039;s vastly out of date (it happens) and the actual market price has, for whatever reason, exceeded the printed values. IOW, I wouldn&#039;t trust these prices any more than I&#039;d trust any other set of published prices to be an accurate picture of what things actually sell for.</p><p>All that said, that&#039;s in exceptionally nice condition - the early Russian minors were typically circulated to death so higher grade specimens can be tough to find. So in this case therefore might be trading closer to the published prices - the Russians, who only relatively recently have been legally allowed to collect and trade in coins, seem to have been madly buying-up everything in sight </p><p><br /></p><p>The point is you need to check and see what people are paying in the actual marketplace before you crack the champagne or quit your day job on the basis of what you see in a huge catalog.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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