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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2367109, member: 112"]I'll bet if you could actually count them over a period of 13 years this question has been asked a thousand times or more on this forum alone. In all that time my answer has always been the same - none of the published price guides are worth the paper they are printed on. With one exception, CDN. And even then CDN is still only a guide that gives you a ballpark number. However, things have recently changed. CDN no longer uses the same method for determining coin values that they previously used, they now have a new method. For decades CDN listed values based on actual, real world prices taken from the electronic dealer networks on a weekly basis. That was the 1 single source for determining values for any given week. But they no longer do that. Today they accumulate pricing information from several different sources and then assign a value to a given coin in a given grade. To me the sources are what matter when it comes to the accuracy, the real world value, for any given coin. In other words, if the source is good, then the value is good. But if the source is no good, then the value is no good. And that's the thing right there, as of yet the jury is still out as to whether what CDN is doing today results in accurate pricing information - or not.[/QUOTE]