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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WolfStock, post: 2515779, member: 81810&quot;]Wow - thanks for all the responses!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; My replies/questions:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I realize this - I&#039;m not expecting to get the *current* spot price in the book; just what was used as basis to help determine the prices on coins that have a lot of bullion value.&nbsp;&nbsp; Usually I&#039;ll check a site like kitco to get the current spot price.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes this is why I was wanting to get it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes that&#039;s pretty much what I figured.&nbsp; As such - it seems like the closest one to &quot;pure bullion&quot; would be the American Buffalo (I just now realized), which is $1,350 for Uncirculated (page 369).&nbsp; &nbsp; That would seem to indicate that the spot price at the time of publishing was somewhere $1,320 - 1,340 or so, if one figures say a few $ premium for the coin itself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes - this is what I&#039;m looking for.&nbsp;&nbsp; Guess the standard Red Book (463 pages for 2017) doesn&#039;t have it.</p><p><br /></p><p>$1200 for gold seems to indicate that the Mega Red Book is very different than the &quot;standard&quot; Red Book, which seems to have a spot basis somewhere around $1300-1350 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>So then for instance if I wanted to buy a 1912 VF-20 St. Gaudens - that shows a value of $1,300 (page 287).&nbsp;&nbsp; If I knew that the &quot;base spot price&quot; of gold at the time of that $1,300 valuation was say $1,270, that means the coin&#039;s generally worth (retail) about $30 over the per-ounce price of gold.&nbsp; &nbsp; So if I went to buy next month, and at the time gold was say $1,400 spot - then I would expect to have to pay $1,430 for that coin.&nbsp; &nbsp; No one would sell it for the $1,300 shown in the book, because price was determined back when gold was $1,270; gold&#039;s now gone up by $130 an ounce so the coin would go up by roughly the same amount (perhaps a bit less, since it&#039;s not quite a full oz).</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyhow - like I say I&#039;m guessing spot was around $1,330-1,340 (?).&nbsp; It&#039;d be nice to somehow know for sure though.&nbsp; I wish they would publish it in this book like they did the Mega Red Book.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Same principle applying to silver etc. of course)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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