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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 5252151, member: 112"]First things first - you need to understand that there is no such thing as an "accurate" coin value guide - not even 1 !</p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate what I mean and why I say that please take a look at this - click on the pic to blow it up full size so it's easy to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218893[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now there's a listing of several price guides, for a given coin, shown to you all at the same time and for free. But look at how much those prices vary ! Which one of those would you say is accurate, for that matter, how could ANY of them be accurate when they vary that much ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Now you can use any and all of the others recommended and when you compare them all to one another you're gonna see basically the same thing - a wide variance in value. And those values are gonna be even different than what you see here - or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>So given that, what's a guy to do ? The best advice I can give you is to look at realized auction prices. And one of the best places to do that is that website I pictured above - <a href="http://coins.ha.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/" rel="nofollow">Heritage Auctions | World’s #1 Numismatic Dealer & Auctioneer - Rare Coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It's free to join, and when you do you can look up any coin ya want and see pages like this where you can filter the results any way you want - as seen on the right.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218895[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And when you click on one of the results you'll get a page that shows you what I showed you above and a whole lot more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should also mention that when you look at realized auction prices you're gonna see a wide variance in prices there as well. Kinda like this - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218897[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or some close kinda like this - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218898[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And when do you do see those variances it's on you to look at the individual coins and figure out and then understand why there is such a price variance, or not. Short and sweet, it's because regardless of grade and TPG, no 2 coins are ever equal - there is just about always going to be differences - sometimes big differences, sometimes small difference. </p><p><br /></p><p>But when you use a web site like this at least you have a chance of seeing what knowledgeable people are paying for coins, both now and in the past, and of figuring out why they paid what they did for that given coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion, if ya wanna research prices it doesn't get any better than Heritage - bit it can be a whole lot worse ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 5252151, member: 112"]First things first - you need to understand that there is no such thing as an "accurate" coin value guide - not even 1 ! To illustrate what I mean and why I say that please take a look at this - click on the pic to blow it up full size so it's easy to read. [ATTACH=full]1218893[/ATTACH] Now there's a listing of several price guides, for a given coin, shown to you all at the same time and for free. But look at how much those prices vary ! Which one of those would you say is accurate, for that matter, how could ANY of them be accurate when they vary that much ? Now you can use any and all of the others recommended and when you compare them all to one another you're gonna see basically the same thing - a wide variance in value. And those values are gonna be even different than what you see here - or not. So given that, what's a guy to do ? The best advice I can give you is to look at realized auction prices. And one of the best places to do that is that website I pictured above - [URL='http://coins.ha.com/']Heritage Auctions | World’s #1 Numismatic Dealer & Auctioneer - Rare Coins[/URL] It's free to join, and when you do you can look up any coin ya want and see pages like this where you can filter the results any way you want - as seen on the right. [ATTACH=full]1218895[/ATTACH] And when you click on one of the results you'll get a page that shows you what I showed you above and a whole lot more. I should also mention that when you look at realized auction prices you're gonna see a wide variance in prices there as well. Kinda like this - [ATTACH=full]1218897[/ATTACH] Or some close kinda like this - [ATTACH=full]1218898[/ATTACH] And when do you do see those variances it's on you to look at the individual coins and figure out and then understand why there is such a price variance, or not. Short and sweet, it's because regardless of grade and TPG, no 2 coins are ever equal - there is just about always going to be differences - sometimes big differences, sometimes small difference. But when you use a web site like this at least you have a chance of seeing what knowledgeable people are paying for coins, both now and in the past, and of figuring out why they paid what they did for that given coin. My opinion, if ya wanna research prices it doesn't get any better than Heritage - bit it can be a whole lot worse ![/QUOTE]
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