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<p>[QUOTE="samjimmy, post: 99864, member: 3813"]"Worth" is a funny thing. A 1795 cent is worth... one cent. However since you don't get them in change when you buy a pack a gum at the local 7-11, people are willing to pay more than one cent for it. How much is relative (as was said, different coins graded the same will sell for different amounts). To think that one would be able to look on a catalog, sheet or web site is a bit silly really. Of course it is (in theory) recent sale/auction data, but in order to really know how accurate the data was, you'd have to know the sample numbers, and it would have to be current (say within the last 30 days). Often, this information isn't available or due to the rarity of an item, just not possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then you add in slight variations (meaning, I bet you could pick ones you like more out of a hundred MS63 coins if they were side-by-side). Plus coins that just have some extra "eye-apeal" as they say, and you've really got a wash in terms of pricing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="samjimmy, post: 99864, member: 3813"]"Worth" is a funny thing. A 1795 cent is worth... one cent. However since you don't get them in change when you buy a pack a gum at the local 7-11, people are willing to pay more than one cent for it. How much is relative (as was said, different coins graded the same will sell for different amounts). To think that one would be able to look on a catalog, sheet or web site is a bit silly really. Of course it is (in theory) recent sale/auction data, but in order to really know how accurate the data was, you'd have to know the sample numbers, and it would have to be current (say within the last 30 days). Often, this information isn't available or due to the rarity of an item, just not possible. And then you add in slight variations (meaning, I bet you could pick ones you like more out of a hundred MS63 coins if they were side-by-side). Plus coins that just have some extra "eye-apeal" as they say, and you've really got a wash in terms of pricing.[/QUOTE]
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