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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 2377275, member: 19165&quot;]NGC bases theirs on Numismedia, but they do also have their own market analyst that compiles sales and adjusts the price. The NGC price guide (when it first started) was a direct port of Numismedia, now they are different.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The sales of one company or another may be stronger or weaker depending on the series, quality, or date. There are trends in certain areas, which have been discussed at length. </p><p><br /></p><p>The topic here is the actual price guide (not the sales trends). </p><p><br /></p><p>The PCGS price guide on their website explicitly says that it is only for PCGS graded coins (continuing their marketing strategy of perceived exclusivity). In order to build market hype, their price guide is often optimistic, in my experience. The NGC price guide is better.</p><p><br /></p><p>But remember that these are both still retail price guides. Most of us try to get somewhere in between dealer/wholesale prices and retail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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