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Message:: [QUOTE="mark_h, post: 1364628, member: 3726"]I just checked my 2 cent coins, which are all PCGS coins.  I find the PCGS price guide over for heritage auctions in general, yet closer to retail prices.  And yes in some cases over and some cases under.  I have never really used it as a retail type guide, but it does appear to be close - probably +/- a few hundred dollars in the grades I looked at. So then I started looking at my IHC's that are PCGS coins.  In one case if I go by the PCGS price guide I would, if I could sell it, make about 850 on a coin from heritage.  This time when looking at collectors corner the prices are low on the pcgs price guide that I looked at.  Of course some of the dealers are specialized and the prices might be a little high. All I know is that several I bought off heritage I could make a nice percentage on if I could sell them at PCGS price guides. That is just my experience when comparing the PCGS price guide to heritage and dealers off collectors corner.  I was concentrating on some higher grades and even then heritage might have only ever auctioned less than 20 of the coins over the years.  I do know I would never use it for moderns - when I collected ASE's the PCGS price guide was about double in some cases over what I could get the coin for.  This is just my results and it was not super intensive. So this just reflects my opinion of what I saw.  Yours may differ based off the type of coins.[/QUOTE]