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Message:: [QUOTE="samjimmy, post: 232728, member: 3813"]"Worth" is relative.  I mean, what the exact "worth" of a 1938-S Lincoln in any grade (last I checked, a cent).  How much is it worth if someone says it's MS-66?  What about if someone else says it's MS-66?  So let's say there were no "price guides" and someone actually tracked what these things actually sold for at auction (for that of course, there'd have to be enough sold to actually make the statistic valid).  Then one took all those values and (for the sake of argument) averaged them (not the only way to determine "worth" but probably the easiest way for this example). Thing is, at some point the list of averages becomes the "price guide" and "worth" of the item. Now, it makes sense to inflate these figures so that anyone considering getting a coin graded will see that a PCGS 1938-S MS-66 slabbed coin is "worth" more than a NGC 1938-S MS-66 slabbed coin, according to the "price guide."  Once you see that, where are you going to have your coins slabbed? It's a bunch of meaningless numbers.  Anyone who's ever bought or sold a coin knows that.  Personally I look at past auction results and determine that price I'm willing to pay, over looking though guides or sheets.[/QUOTE]