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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2066142, member: 19065&quot;]Certainly we can&#039;t go by guidebooks for pricing. That&#039;s a given. All guidebooks are unable to maintain current values and maintain a publishing schedule.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose you have already looked to NGC (<a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/" rel="nofollow">Price guide</a>) as well.</p><p>Unfortunately, <a href="http://www.trackandprice.com/sample_screen_coin.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.trackandprice.com/sample_screen_coin.html" rel="nofollow">Track &amp; Price </a>only has software for US Coin figures.&nbsp; Same with <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml" rel="nofollow">NumisMedia FMV</a> (I believe).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never looked beyond US and Mexican coins, but Coin World magazine (and digital) subscribers are offered some &quot;ball park&quot; figures from their published Coin Values material. I&#039;m not sure whether they list Japanese coin values at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you may have to do exactly what you already seem to be doing, the laborious task of creating your own database culled from various sources. Tracked over time, this is bound to give <i>you</i> the best sense of values. Many people eventually end up doing this by default as they specialize and research before adding pieces to their collections. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, You mentioned a coin with provenance to the Jacobs collection. Not that it helps with values, but have you a copy of his Japanese Coinage book? It&#039;s old, and lacks information presented in Japanese, romanji only for the most part, but still relevant for identifying coins and specifications.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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