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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1812713, member: 112"]Don't regret buying the Red Book. The Red Book is literally full of very good information. You just need to ignore and not pay any attention to the values listed in the Red Book.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Grey Sheet is good, yes. But you have to understand that the values listed in the Grey Sheet are only for coins that you can view in hand, and coins that are only average for the grade (that does not mean the average price, far from it in fact !). What that means is that coins of a given grade may well be worth less than what is listed in the Grey Sheet, or may well be worth a good deal more than what is listed in the Grey Sheet.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for other sources, Heritage is one of the best. When you use Heritage you get to see the full price range for a given coin in a given grade. Realized prices from other auction houses are also good. </p><p><br /></p><p>But ebay is different, and I always recommend that people <u>do not</u> use ebay to check prices. That is because there are way too many people buying coins on ebay that have no clue about what they are doing or what coins are really worth. And because of that they pay way too much for the coins they buy. So if you use the completed prices on ebay then you are going to think the coins are worth more than they really are.</p><p><br /></p><p>ebay is a self perpetuating price inflation machine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1812713, member: 112"]Don't regret buying the Red Book. The Red Book is literally full of very good information. You just need to ignore and not pay any attention to the values listed in the Red Book. The Grey Sheet is good, yes. But you have to understand that the values listed in the Grey Sheet are only for coins that you can view in hand, and coins that are only average for the grade (that does not mean the average price, far from it in fact !). What that means is that coins of a given grade may well be worth less than what is listed in the Grey Sheet, or may well be worth a good deal more than what is listed in the Grey Sheet. As for other sources, Heritage is one of the best. When you use Heritage you get to see the full price range for a given coin in a given grade. Realized prices from other auction houses are also good. But ebay is different, and I always recommend that people [U]do not[/U] use ebay to check prices. That is because there are way too many people buying coins on ebay that have no clue about what they are doing or what coins are really worth. And because of that they pay way too much for the coins they buy. So if you use the completed prices on ebay then you are going to think the coins are worth more than they really are. ebay is a self perpetuating price inflation machine.[/QUOTE]
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