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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1298815, member: 29751&quot;]Your &quot;math&quot; seems to be a little off:&nbsp; 20% off the mark for a $1.50 coin is $0.30.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that kind of difference really makes a difference...and isn&#039;t what the OP was really referring to.&nbsp; It was a lament of prices being 500%-1000% overpriced on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Doug stated, there really are no good price-guides.&nbsp; Even Greysheet is just an <u><b><i>opinion</i></b></u> of people, trying to sell their product...in this case, the &quot;product&quot; being a weekly newsletter-type price sheet that <span style="color: #ff0000">some</span> dealers seem to think is somehow <b><span style="color: #800080">magical</span></b>.&nbsp; The value of a coin <span style="color: #ff0000">at auction</span> is what two (or more) people interested in the coin are willing to pay.&nbsp; PCGS price guide values are almost always high, Numismedia (NGC) prices are usually somewhere within the ballpark, but again, they won&#039;t be spot on.&nbsp; If the price guides were only off by 20% (high or low) the world would be pretty good...my personal experience has been that they are usually off by 100%-300% high (or the converse, the real value when sold is about 30% to 50% of what the price guides say -- all depending on the coin of course).&nbsp; Put another way, <i><b>no coins (or almost no coins) sell for what any guide says</b></i>.&nbsp; The only ones that sell for exactly the price guide price are the ones sold by people who think that a price guide is some magical tool by which the market is bound.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the types of IHCs you are looking for, you should be able to find these in the &quot;junk&quot; bins of most medium-size or larger coin shops.&nbsp; I have a complete run of 1881-1909 IHCs (minus the &quot;S&quot; mints) which I purchased in around &quot;G&quot; to &quot;F&quot; condition for $1 each.&nbsp; I put them in a cent tube and gave them to my nephew.&nbsp; If you post the dates here that you need, I bet (as others have said) someone would be able to help you out!</p><p><br /></p><p>Best of luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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