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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1381350, member: 112&quot;]Asking prices are all over the place any coin, every coin ! But you will probably never find a wider, or larger, disparity than you will on ebay. That&#039;s because the sellers on ebay know there are that many stupid people out there who will actually pay stupid money for something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even among the brick and mortar shops, if you pick 10 dealers and ask them their prices for any given coin in any given grade you will find one of those 10 who is asking double what one of the others is asking for the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, if you search realized auction prices for any given coin in any given grade, you will find a wide range of realized prices. Seldom will any be double, but it is not uncommon to find them where 1 will be 50% more than the others, even when it graded by the same TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for this is pretty simple, but to beginners or people who lack experience and knowledge about the coin market, they just never seem to grasp it. They think that all examples of a given coin in a given grade by a given TPG should be worth the same amount of money. But they are not. The reason they are not is because not all MS65&#039;s (or pick your grade) are equal. </p><p><br /></p><p>One can have nice color, another can have fewer marks, another can have great luster, yet another can have great eye appeal - yet every single one is graded MS65. But each of the coins is a different as night is from day from the other coins. So people are willing to pay more money for one than they are for the others, and for different reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are going to collect coins you have to get that concept into your head and keep it there - always. It will never be any different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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