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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1533487, member: 112&quot;]There is no price guide that will answer that for you - none. The Grey Sheet won&#039;t do it, Heritage archives won&#039;t do it, and absolutely none of the other published price guides will do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason they won&#039;t do it is because you do not have the requisite knowledge to judge the coin yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, no coin in any given grade is equal to all other coins in the same given grade. You have low for the grade, average for the grade, and high for the grade, coins - all graded exactly the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Grey Sheet, only list prices for coins that are average for the grade. So if the coin you are looking at is low for the grade, or high for the grade,&nbsp; then you don&#039;t know what that coin is worth if you look it up in the Grey Sheet. Unless, you can accurately judge the coin yourself !</p><p><br /></p><p>Same thing for Heritage archives. When you look up any given coin in a given grade in the Heritage archives you will see a wide range of realized prices. Some of those realized prices may even be as much as double what other realized prices were for the same coin, in the same grade, and graded by the same TPG. So unless you can accurately judge all of those coins, and do so based solely on pictures, then you have no idea what a fair price actually is.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the other published price guides, regardless of which one it is, they are even worse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you understand what I am telling you ? I am saying that no price guide can help you at all unless you have the knowledge to be able to accurately grade coins yourself. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, probably 95% or more of all collectors cannot do this. That is why the best thing that any collector can do is to establish relationships with knowledgeable, respected, and trusted dealers. And then you let them do the deciding on whether the coin is worth it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealers work for YOU, they are YOUR agent. They find the coins you want, at the price you are willing to pay. They have the knowledge and experience that you do not have. So you trust them to do for you what you cannot do for yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kind of like going to the doctor, or the dentist, or the auto mechanic, or calling a plumber, an electrician, or any other professional. You call them to do the work you do not know how to do yourself. You trust them to do the job for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it&#039;s no different with coin dealers. And the sooner you realize that, the better off you&#039;ll be <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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