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<p>[QUOTE="ambr0zie, post: 5137270, member: 80952"]If I want to <b>approximate </b>(key word) the price for a coin I'm interested in, I am just looking for it in different past auctions, as recent as possible. But you have to remember there is no such thing as fixed price. It depends on way too many factors, such as how many bidders were interested in a certain item at a certain time, the condition of the coin, if it was a well known website or not ....</p><p><br /></p><p>I won some coins paying just the starting bid because nobody else was interested. I lost some because I was outbid over the price I found correct for the coin (that was my personal opinion). I lost coins because I wasn't paying attention and I just missed them. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's irrelevant if you find a coin sold in 2015 for, let's say, 100$. Does it mean all the coins you will find, same type, cost 100$? If that was a VF and you find in 2020 the same coin but in Fine condition, what is the "correct" price? 30? 50? 100?</p><p>Same situations with modern coins, I have the KM catalogs and sometimes I check them, the prices there are informative and in many cases, the market is completely different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ambr0zie, post: 5137270, member: 80952"]If I want to [B]approximate [/B](key word) the price for a coin I'm interested in, I am just looking for it in different past auctions, as recent as possible. But you have to remember there is no such thing as fixed price. It depends on way too many factors, such as how many bidders were interested in a certain item at a certain time, the condition of the coin, if it was a well known website or not .... I won some coins paying just the starting bid because nobody else was interested. I lost some because I was outbid over the price I found correct for the coin (that was my personal opinion). I lost coins because I wasn't paying attention and I just missed them. It's irrelevant if you find a coin sold in 2015 for, let's say, 100$. Does it mean all the coins you will find, same type, cost 100$? If that was a VF and you find in 2020 the same coin but in Fine condition, what is the "correct" price? 30? 50? 100? Same situations with modern coins, I have the KM catalogs and sometimes I check them, the prices there are informative and in many cases, the market is completely different.[/QUOTE]
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