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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JPeace$, post: 1815422, member: 42727&quot;]Love seeing all the different viewpoints.&nbsp; I was told by a highly respected coin broker, who was a grader at NGC and now works for Heritage, that using the Heritage auction archives is probably the best place to go for a price guide.&nbsp; He was not working at Heritage when he said that to me.&nbsp; Heritage has a wealth of sales data.&nbsp; You can see when coins were purchased as well.&nbsp; This helps with the fluctuations in the market.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I buy a lot of coins on eBay, but have to agree with <b>GDJMSP</b> that many of the prices realized on the site skew the market data.&nbsp; I am very careful on eBay and simply walk away from a lot of auctions because the price is too high, IMO.&nbsp; I use Heritage, NGC price guide and CoinWorld for pricing guidance.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard so many contradictary comments about CDN, that I stopped buying it.&nbsp; I also agree about the coin being worth what the buyer is willing to pay, but only up to a certain point.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s a real example that just happened to me.&nbsp; Stack&#039;s and Bower&#039;s auction ended last night.&nbsp; Coin I was bidding on had a Pop of 44 at NGC and 12 at PCGS.&nbsp; Only one level graded higher (MS66 PL) and there were less than a handful of those graded.&nbsp; Of the 45K MS65 in the Heritage archives, only 3469 were PL&#039;s and only a total of 20 were sold in the same year and mint mark I was bidding on.&nbsp; Their records date back to the 1990&#039;s.&nbsp; Earlier this month one sold for $1116, &#039;12 $12,650, &#039;11 $632, &#039;09 a couple sold, &#039;07 only 3 sold, etc...&nbsp; The coin I was looking at had a low POP and did not hit the market very often.&nbsp; So I bid on it and according to the NGC price guide, I paid about a 25% premium when you include BP.&nbsp; But the bottom line for me is that I wanted that coin and I was willing to pay a premium to get it.&nbsp; I won the coin, I&#039;m ecstatic and don&#039;t give a rip that I paid over &quot;market&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If it&#039;s a common date and grade though, I know there will be many more to hit the market and I will be more judicious with my bidding.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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