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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 12810, member: 112"]S.P. Harper - </p><p><br /></p><p>There is something you may not be aware of - the values listed in the Red Book are far from accuarte or realistic. Quite often they are way high - other times they are way low. While the Red Book is full of many pieces of essential information regarding US coins - values is NOT one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if you do not end up selling your coins on ebay - ebay can be a very valuable resource when it comes to determining accurate values for a given coin or coins. All you need to do is check through the realized prices for the coins you have. Here is a link you can use for that purpose - <a href="http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/RefineSearch?from=R4&ht=1&sacategory=256" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/RefineSearch?from=R4&ht=1&sacategory=256" rel="nofollow">Realized Prices</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Now because the way you grade your coins may be different from the way those on ebay grade theirs - not unusual - I would suggest comparing the pics of the coins on ebay to your coins. If you think your coin is MS62 and the ebay coin is listed as MS64 - but they look the same to you - this will give a more accurate idea of the value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 12810, member: 112"]S.P. Harper - There is something you may not be aware of - the values listed in the Red Book are far from accuarte or realistic. Quite often they are way high - other times they are way low. While the Red Book is full of many pieces of essential information regarding US coins - values is NOT one of them. Even if you do not end up selling your coins on ebay - ebay can be a very valuable resource when it comes to determining accurate values for a given coin or coins. All you need to do is check through the realized prices for the coins you have. Here is a link you can use for that purpose - [URL=http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/RefineSearch?from=R4&ht=1&sacategory=256]Realized Prices[/URL] Now because the way you grade your coins may be different from the way those on ebay grade theirs - not unusual - I would suggest comparing the pics of the coins on ebay to your coins. If you think your coin is MS62 and the ebay coin is listed as MS64 - but they look the same to you - this will give a more accurate idea of the value.[/QUOTE]
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