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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 112034, member: 1892"]The trouble with any published "price guide" is that they're attempting to set a value on objects of passion. If you want the coin bad enough, you will pay what it takes to get it regardless of what PCGS or the Greysheet say it's worth. Further, published price guides tend to be pubished by people with a stake in the pricing. You take it with a grain of salt.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been mentioned, the only "reliable" estimate of a coin's value is recent physical records of actual sales as evidenced by places like Teletrade, Heritage and Ebay. </p><p><br /></p><p>I strongly urge you to become a (free) member at Heritage Auctions and access their huge database of prior sales results. They get a more sophisticated clientele than Ebay, and in my opinion Heritage's archives represent about as close to "actual value" as may be had in this entirely subjective hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 112034, member: 1892"]The trouble with any published "price guide" is that they're attempting to set a value on objects of passion. If you want the coin bad enough, you will pay what it takes to get it regardless of what PCGS or the Greysheet say it's worth. Further, published price guides tend to be pubished by people with a stake in the pricing. You take it with a grain of salt. As has been mentioned, the only "reliable" estimate of a coin's value is recent physical records of actual sales as evidenced by places like Teletrade, Heritage and Ebay. I strongly urge you to become a (free) member at Heritage Auctions and access their huge database of prior sales results. They get a more sophisticated clientele than Ebay, and in my opinion Heritage's archives represent about as close to "actual value" as may be had in this entirely subjective hobby.[/QUOTE]
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