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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1355071, member: 29581&quot;]There really is no price guide more accurate. </p><p><br /></p><p>Grey sheet has wholesale and retail prices, used a lot by many dealers. Some collectors rely on this guide, some don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Printed price guides like Red Book, Blue Book, Black Book, etc., are outdated by the time they are on the book shelves, and not a whole lot of collectors rely on those as accurate guides for values. Lots of people run out to the bookstore, or where ever, annually and pick up the new edition of Red Book. I don&#039;t. I don&#039;t see the need to. Unless there is a bunch of updated coin information in each edition, I see no need to really. But that&#039;s just me.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not so much that we&#039;re getting on the OPs opinion, just that it&#039;s really moot as the market is not showing what he claims. I&#039;m on eBay daily checking completed sales of coins, and sets. The Franklin series is my most favorite of all the half dollars, and some dollar series. Since my collection of Franklins is half complete, I&#039;m looking for market trends on these in varying grades from both PCGS, and NGC, and I&#039;m not seeing what he is claiming. If anything, the prices are actually below what Numismedia lists. That Franklin you posted the link for is an example. Numismedia lists the value at $1040, the price on that has remained at $530 and there is 10 minutes left on that auction. Again, that&#039;s a little more than 50% of the listed value. Maybe a couple of years ago, that coin might have sold for more, but right now, with the market the way it is, not going to happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not really what a books says the value is that really counts, but what coins actually sell for. It&#039;s not perfect, and some would say not very accurate, but I&#039;ll tell you one thing; it&#039;s a heck of a lot more accurate than the annual printing of Red Book, and other guides like it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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