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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 433240, member: 4552"]WELCOME TO THE FORUM. The problem with the PCGS web site price guide is it is primarily made to make you think you have a coin that is worth sending in for grading. If you had a coin that they said is worth $5 you wouldn't send it to them for grading. But if they say your coin is worth $30 you may elect to have it graded and slabbed. Gee is that a way to make money or what? As to the prices in the Red Book. Try to remember that that book is being put together about a year and a half ahead of time. The new 2009 version was probably started in 2007, information gathered during that year, publishing started about the end of 2007 so they could put it out in April of 2008. All prices are a rediculous guess of what may, might, could, should, would hopefully be in a few years from the time they made them. Great book as long as you skip the prices. The prices in the Numismatic News Magazine are a little better since they are issued monthly. And they have nothing to gain by lying.Many people today use the grey sheet and although that is fairly up to date and since many dealers go by that,  probably the best for a good guess.Just remember there is no manufacturer's suggested list price on a coin as there are for toasters. All coin guides are just that. GUIDES. You could say this coin is worth a million or a dime. If you could sell it for a million, then that is what it is worth.[/QUOTE]