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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 16478, member: 112"]Well - if you were ask any of those who produce the PCGS price guide the answer you will get is " average dealer prices ". That means what the dealers are asking for the coins - or retail price.</p><p><br /></p><p>However - if you took the time to carefully track every auction site, all the live auctions, and watched as many dealer ads as you could find for several years - this is what you find out. That the price listed in the PCGS price guide is the highest price recorded for a given coin in a given grade. It's no where near average.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course you could always do this as well - check the asking price for a given coin by David Hall Rare Coins. Then look at the price for this same coin in the PCGS price guide. What you will often find is that DHRC is selling that coin for roughly half of what the PCGS price guide says it is worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you don't already know - David Hall is the President of PCGS. So if those coins were really worth that much - don't you think it a little odd that he would be selling them for half price ? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 16478, member: 112"]Well - if you were ask any of those who produce the PCGS price guide the answer you will get is " average dealer prices ". That means what the dealers are asking for the coins - or retail price. However - if you took the time to carefully track every auction site, all the live auctions, and watched as many dealer ads as you could find for several years - this is what you find out. That the price listed in the PCGS price guide is the highest price recorded for a given coin in a given grade. It's no where near average. Of course you could always do this as well - check the asking price for a given coin by David Hall Rare Coins. Then look at the price for this same coin in the PCGS price guide. What you will often find is that DHRC is selling that coin for roughly half of what the PCGS price guide says it is worth. Now if you don't already know - David Hall is the President of PCGS. So if those coins were really worth that much - don't you think it a little odd that he would be selling them for half price ? :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
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