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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 630432, member: 4703"]And T$ has only hit the highlights of US coin valuation.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the rest of the world there are <ul> <li>the 5 phone-book sized volumes of the Standard Catalog of World Coins - more or less accurate for some countries, wildly inaccurate for others</li> <li>Individual country guides like Charlton's Canadian, the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association Catalog, etc., also generally accurate only to the extent of relative value, and</li> <li>several of the guides mentioned by T$.</li> </ul><p>For all significantly valuable coins, US and world, the best and most accurate guides are realized prices at major auctions; and for more common coins realized prices at Ebay and other online auction sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, you can't appraise a coin collection just by grabbing a universal reference book and looking up the individual pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 630432, member: 4703"]And T$ has only hit the highlights of US coin valuation. For the rest of the world there are [list]the 5 phone-book sized volumes of the Standard Catalog of World Coins - more or less accurate for some countries, wildly inaccurate for others[*]Individual country guides like Charlton's Canadian, the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association Catalog, etc., also generally accurate only to the extent of relative value, and[*]several of the guides mentioned by T$.[/list]For all significantly valuable coins, US and world, the best and most accurate guides are realized prices at major auctions; and for more common coins realized prices at Ebay and other online auction sites. Bottom line, you can't appraise a coin collection just by grabbing a universal reference book and looking up the individual pieces.[/QUOTE]
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