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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 4901804, member: 9270&quot;]I&#039;m in the process of bringing my collection inventory up to date.</p><p>Part of that will be assigning a value to each coin.</p><p>And I want to be consistent, i.e., I want to use one source of catalog values as much as possible.</p><p>And I intend to use <u>retail</u> values since that would likely be easier.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the time being I will be covering ONLY U.S. material.</p><p>That will be difficult enough without including non-U.S. items.</p><p>And to make it easier, virtually all my coins are slabbed; I will consider the TPG grading as correct.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>QUESTION 1: What one pricing source would best cover pre-20th century US coins?</b></p><p>In hardcopy I have available:</p><p>-- Coin World</p><p>-- PCGS Rare Coin Market Report</p><p>-- The Numismatist</p><p>I&#039;m not particularly familiar with online sites.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>QUESTION 2: As a general rule what would you consider reasonable for &#039;&#039;in between&quot; grades?</b></p><p>For instance what would you value an XF-45 coin when a catalog lists only XF-40 and AU-50 values.</p><p>Add 40% of the difference between XF-40 and AU-50?</p><p>Or one-third?</p><p>Or?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m trying to keep this as simple as reasonable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on your responses I may have further questions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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