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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2526189, member: 1892&quot;]If you want to buy one, you&#039;ll be competing with other buyers who want one too. Your only &quot;price guide&quot; is what they&#039;re paying for them. For your coin, this information is pretty readily available at PCGS&#039; Auction Prices site:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices/default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Almost 10,000 1878-CC sales, in all grades, going back 25 years. Use that data to compare against Ebay auction results (should be an education about the relative intelligence of many Ebay buyers <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ), and as a guideline when you search non-auction dealer sites. If the dealer is asking significantly more or less than these sales averages (they know where to find this information too), you then need to find out why they&#039;re asking the price. Perhaps the coin is a &quot;dog&quot; at the grade, or perhaps a real winner which ought to be a grade higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>But either way, your peer buyers are the only ones who have a vested interest in paying low prices, and they are your competition. Everyone who publishes a &quot;price guide&quot; has the <b>opposite</b> vested interest, in <i>high</i> prices, so they either inflate the value of their slabs (TPG&#039;s) or get the advertising/support dollars from dealers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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