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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 4101796, member: 99642&quot;]Hi, Welcome to <i><b>Coin Talk !!</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p>First off, you have to understand that the chart you&#039;re looking at really only pertains to Numista members, that&#039;s why on the far right it says &quot;Frequency&quot;. That &quot;frequency&quot;, as I understand it, is roughly how many Numista members have the coin.</p><p>You&#039;ll notice that for the year 1917, no value is shown at all. Does that mean that the coin of that year has no value?&nbsp; Of course not.&nbsp; I believe what that &quot;no value&quot; means is that no Numista member has reported a value or what they either bought or sold that coin of that year for.</p><p><br /></p><p>So as you can start to see, Numista is most valuable to Numista members.&nbsp; However, there is still a lot of valuable info to be gained on Numista pages.</p><p>For example, all of the actual coin data such as weight, size, silver content, etc. is very pertinent to your coin. The actual intrinsic silver value (melt) shown is accurate and updated constantly.</p><p>Numista is most helpful in IDENTIFYING coins.</p><p>You can adjust your search parameters, by DESCRIPTION, until it starts showing you coins like what you&#039;re looking for.</p><p>However, my go-to site for quick reference in both identifying and valuation is NGC.</p><p>Use <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/" rel="nofollow">world</a> for world coins. That link is NGC&#039;s World Coin lookup. You kinda have to have at least some idea of what you&#039;ve got in order to get the most out of it, but if you enter the country, the year, and the denomination, in that order, it will give you everything else including an easy to understand valuation guide. Just remember that no valuation guide is so up-to-date that it will be perfectly correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to recap :</p><p><br /></p><p>Use Numista if you&#039;re not sure what the coin is and you can only describe what&#039;s on it in order to find it and identify it.</p><p>And use NGC if you know the country, year, and denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both are good sources of info, so you need both. Just remember which one to use when, and how.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for American coins, here&#039;s a very easy one to use. It&#039;s called CoinTrackers. I&#039;ll give you the link. Just go to the site, start reading about it, then start playing around with it, and you&#039;ll quickly figure out how to use it. It&#039;s got a lot of useful info on it.</p><p><a href="http://cointrackers.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cointrackers.com/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://cointrackers.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cointrackers.com/" rel="nofollow">/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, it looks funny, but it works.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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