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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1600724, member: 112&quot;]Greg - </p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of where you look you are going to find numbers all over the place. There can be any of several reasons for this. But one of the most common reasons is that a lot of price guides simply over-value their listings. In other words their listed prices are too high.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you need to always be aware of something else, any given coin in any given grade will never be worth any set amount. That is because all coins are unique and two coins of the same grade (even when graded by the same TPG) are equal.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, if you use the link provided for Numismedia and you look up a 1878-CC Morgan in MS65, they list the value at $1750.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, if you look up the same coin on Heritage, that same coin sold in the last 30 to 60 days for anywhere from $1200 to $1500.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now Heritage is the real world, those are actual realized sale prices. Numismedia on the other hand bases their values on dealer asking prices. But as you can see there is a pretty large variance in prices on Heritage. And if you look even further you can even find some examples of that 1878-CC MS65 that have sold for over $4000. But those coins had attractive toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I am trying to point out to you is that there is never a set price or value for any coin because every coin is unique. Instead of a price there is typically a &quot;price range&quot; that most coins will fall into. And about the only places you can see these price ranges are in realized auction prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is a danger in doing that too. For you can&#039;t just look at any realized auction prices. You have to check prices where educated buyers typically buy their coins. In other words places like ebay <u>are not</u> where you want to look. Places like Heritage <u>are</u> where you want to look.</p><p><br /></p><p>People also have to keep in mind that when you are looking up values for your coins, it is comparatively easy with slabbed coins. But when your coins are raw, unless you are very good at grading, things get a lot tougher because what you think is a 65, may not be what a TPG thinks is a 65.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even with the slabbed coins, you have to be able to judge the coins within the slab because the TPGs have a pretty wide range of what defines a 65 themselves. Of course that is why there is a price range to begin with - because some 65s are nicer than other 65s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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