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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1692110, member: 112"]Completed auction prices are the only thing I would ever use. But even with those, the same coin, in the same grade, graded by the same TPG, prices can still vary by 100%. Meaning 1 example might have sold for double what another did. And more in some cases, less in others. What people never seem to understand is that no coin is ever worth a set, specific amount of money - not ever. They always vary in value because every single coin is unique. So the only thing you can ever do when trying to establish value for any given coin is to compare it to others in completed auctions, find one that seems closest to  being like yours, and use that value. Problem is, values change all the time. In a single year I've seen coins lose 50% or more of their value, or double or even triple in value, in 1 year. So reality is that it is senseless to even try to value your coins. Unless you are going to sell them, and very soon. I found out many years ago that trying to keep an updated list of coin values for the coins in my collection was a huge, just a truly huge, amount of work. I had to redo everything every few months, and over and over, and over again. So I eventually quit even trying. It just wasn't worth it.[/QUOTE]