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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1474419, member: 66&quot;]For pricing Mexican coins???</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, if you are willing to do the work it represents an opportunity.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In most cases that is absolutely true.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because for the most part the prices DON&#039;T change that much or that fast.&nbsp; (Frankly they don&#039;t with US either).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The thing it NGC is primarily concerned with the grading&nbsp; and encapsulating of the coins.&nbsp; They really have no stake in their values so researching and updating the values themselves, especially for non-US coins would be a low priority for them.&nbsp; Most likely the values are as you said taken almost directly from the North American Coins and Prices book, which in turn are probably lifted directly from the Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins. (Same publisher)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Why haven&#039;t they been updated for three years?&nbsp; Simple answer is time, staff, and money.&nbsp; The coin catalogs are a tiny portion of the publishers empire and it doesn&#039;t generate a lot of revenue.&nbsp; So not a lot of money is allocated to it.&nbsp; As for time, the staff has to cover and update the information for hundreds of coin issuing entities, covering tens of thousands of different types and hundreds of thousands of values over a five century period.&nbsp; And that has to be done with a staff of about five or six people.&nbsp; And they produce some eight or nine catalogs and maintain the numismaster website.&nbsp; Frankly they are horribly overworked and it is amazing they do as well as they do.&nbsp; (unfortunately it also explains why there are more and more errors in the catalogs than there used to be.)</p><p><br /></p><p>They do use outside volunteers to help with the pricing so if you can convince them you can do a credible job updating the Mexican prices they may be able to use your volunteer effort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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