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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1497111, member: 112&quot;]The problem with Krause is that some prices are way too high and some are way too low. And there really is no way to determine which is which unless you immerse yourself in the market and do the necessary research. That means sorting through realized auction prices, and no I don&#039;t mean ebay. It&#039;s the same thing with world coins on ebay that it is with US coins - there are too many stupid people out there paying stupid money for coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a lot of work to find out what a given world coin is actually worth. And it&#039;s harder to do than it is with US coins because there is less research material. Unless you research European auction records. But then you run into a similar problem that you have with ebay. Collecting has exploded over there and there are a whole lot more companies and web sites holding auctions, and a lot of those people are new to the game. So you will find many harshly cleaned coins selling for the same price as problem free coins. You can find many fakes being sold. And unless you know your coins well enough to sort the good from the bad - well, you&#039;re kind of stuck. And the vast majority of coins sold in Europe are raw, you don&#039;t have the advantage of the TPGs to sort the coins for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>So tarantella if I were you I would start searching the Heritage archives of world coins. You can also use these guys - <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/</a>&nbsp; and these guys - <a href="http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mcsearch.info/index.html" rel="nofollow">O</a>ther than that you will be restricted to using specific auction records from specific auction house web sites.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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