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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1365417, member: 13650&quot;]In your opinion, how well does the CDN price guide cover the entire spectrum of US coins?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I agree dealers use the guide, &quot;to the extent they possibly can&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; But when I see them check the guide for something I&quot;m interested in buying at a show, half the time I think it&#039;s a joke.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t break it down for everything.&nbsp; It&#039;s not detailed for most issues.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If a guide like PCGS or NGC online covers nearly 100% of individual US coin values, I will go out on a limb (without putting extensive thought or calculation into it) and say CDN grey sheet covers about 30% of US coin values in detail.&nbsp; &nbsp; For example, the generic values for gold coins in CDN are worthless IMO.&nbsp; There&#039;s such a broad range between a key date, semi key, and a common that the CDN is worthless.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;When people are given advice on here to buy the grey sheet, they assume they&#039;re going to get a guide similar to what they see online or in the redbook.&nbsp; &nbsp; But it&#039;s not even close.&nbsp; &nbsp; If you&#039;re looking up silver dollars, commemoratives, some bullion coins, etc..., the CDN can help you.&nbsp; Much beyond that, it can&#039;t.&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#039;s interesting to look at and gets updated weekly, but it&#039;s definitely not an end all, be all price guide.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Edit:&nbsp; To prove my point, I just tried to look up the coin I have in my avatar.&nbsp; It&#039;s an AU-53 Classic head.&nbsp; &nbsp; There isn&#039;t even a generic price listed for these in CDN.&nbsp; They&#039;re not in there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Under US gold prices, it states (Prices are for the most common date of each type.)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ok, well that&#039;s great.&nbsp; What happens if you&#039;re not buying a common date?&nbsp;&nbsp; You need another resource because CDN can&#039;t help you.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s cheap to go online and buy one.&nbsp; If anybody&#039;s curious, go ahead and pick one up.&nbsp; I usually buy a couple CDNs a year.&nbsp; Not saying I have anything against them.&nbsp; Just that it is limited in it&#039;s coverage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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