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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1047020, member: 13650&quot;]Then the best that can be said for ebay is that the pricing is completely inconclusive for most issues.&nbsp; There&#039;s no way to know the exact percentage of people who know what&#039;s going on and those who don&#039;t.&nbsp;&nbsp; We just know there are &quot;many&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; We don&#039;t know that they are the vast majority or how many have a mix of decent knowledge in between. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; For modern proofs and commemoratives, ebay is probably a reasonable guide.&nbsp; With those you have more known&#039;s, many examples sold, less factors involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; For anything else, throw in the fact that 10 different knowledgeable people may give 10 different values for the same coin on a given day.&nbsp;&nbsp; And their opinions may change the next day.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no definitive answer.&nbsp;&nbsp; There can only be guides.&nbsp; And it seems no matter what is printed anywhere, people believe they should be able to buy the coin for X% less than any guide&#039;s price.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;That&#039;s the only consensus we have, which I&#039;m afraid is not very valuable to the OP&#039;er. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Now, I did purchase one copy of the Blue book before and it was shocking.&nbsp; (Supposedly what dealers are able to buy coins for.)&nbsp; Everybody should look at that book at least once and compare with other sources.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe people should only buy blue books and go from there?&nbsp; I just don&#039;t think you&#039;ll find a dealer anywhere who&#039;s going to sell anything anywhere near those prices.&nbsp; They&#039;re going to laugh at you.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; All I know is that I&#039;ve been to about 8 shows over the past couple of years and the dealers go to a bottom dollar and it stops.&nbsp;&nbsp; You either take it or leave it.&nbsp; If I was supposed to hold out for what some people believe current pricing should be on here, I&#039;d go home empty handed every time.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the shows usually have better deals than ebay, IME.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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