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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1812758, member: 112"]NGC does not even have a price guide of their own, all they do is use Numismedia. yeah I know they call it the NGC Price Guide, but it isn't. They are just taking their info direct from Numismedia. NGC even tells you that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take the time sometime to look up the sources that the various price guides, any of them, use for the values listed in them. What you find when you do is usually surprising to most. And it goes a long way in explaining why the values listed in price guides are so far off from reality.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, lots of folks use various price guides. But that doesn't mean that they should, or that the information in them is any good. And that's why lots of people pay way too much for coins every single day. It also a large part of the reason why 95% or more of collectors lose money on their collections when they eventually sell them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1812758, member: 112"]NGC does not even have a price guide of their own, all they do is use Numismedia. yeah I know they call it the NGC Price Guide, but it isn't. They are just taking their info direct from Numismedia. NGC even tells you that. Take the time sometime to look up the sources that the various price guides, any of them, use for the values listed in them. What you find when you do is usually surprising to most. And it goes a long way in explaining why the values listed in price guides are so far off from reality. And yes, lots of folks use various price guides. But that doesn't mean that they should, or that the information in them is any good. And that's why lots of people pay way too much for coins every single day. It also a large part of the reason why 95% or more of collectors lose money on their collections when they eventually sell them.[/QUOTE]
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