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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 17970, member: 112"]Robert - A search of Heritage provides a list of twelve 1925-S MS66 FB Mercury dimes that have sold from Feb. 1993 to date. Four of them were graded by NGC and range in price from $3,881 to $5,520. Eight of the coins were graded by PCGS and ranged in price from $5,750 to $13,800 - with 4 of those coins selling for over $12,000. Curiously - the coins which brought the highest prices are in my opinion among the worst of the lot - even though they were all graded by the same company, PCGS and of the same grade. And it's not the coin market changing either. For the 4 most expensive coins sold from Aug. of 2000 to last month - with the most expensive coin being the one sold in 2000. First of all, what I would urge you to do is to quit spending large amounts of money on coins when you don't understand what you are buying and why it is or is not worth the asking price. Secondly I would suggest that you do the same search I did under Completed Auctions - Mercury dimes - 1925-S MS66 FB. Then look at each of those coins sold and compare it to yours. You'll see that your coin is indeed much nicer than many of the others. And you'll see that there is no rhyme or reason for the prices realized. The price a coin brings at an auction like this is for two reasons - 1 who it is that is buying it and 2 why they are buying it. All too often these coins are purchased for outrageous prices by people who wish to compete in the Registry programs. They will often pay any price just to move their collection up in the scoring. To me - that's crazy. The reasons for the disparity between the realized prices for identically graded coins by NGC and PCGS have already been explained. It may sound too simple and far fetched to be true. But use your own eyes - look at the coins found in that search - and you will see it is true. That's about the best advice I can give you.[/QUOTE]

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