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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1195254, member: 16729"]<b>...Do people REALLY believe some of those prices?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I took a gander at the NGC searchable world coin schedule there...here's an example of what I discovered:</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked up their price on a S. Korean 1999 5Won coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>.30 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as misleading and possibly pathologically innacurate as the Krause catalogue.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I think so: The 1999 5Won coin has a mintage of 8,000. It only appears in ONE kind of mintset for that year, and that mintset is currently being sold at the sujipbank and sujipmol websites (or anywhere else you can find it) in Korea for around $400US. SO: Somehow(?) the value of the coin is .30 cents??? I've always wondered how they come up with certain coin values...If I want to buy a 1999 5Won coin in MS, then I have to buy one of those mintsets. OR I can wait for a slabbed one to come up for sale somewhere, and that would easily sell for around $200US.</p><p><br /></p><p>THIRTY CENTS?? I wish![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1195254, member: 16729"][b]...Do people REALLY believe some of those prices?[/b] I took a gander at the NGC searchable world coin schedule there...here's an example of what I discovered: I looked up their price on a S. Korean 1999 5Won coin. .30 cents. Just as misleading and possibly pathologically innacurate as the Krause catalogue. This is why I think so: The 1999 5Won coin has a mintage of 8,000. It only appears in ONE kind of mintset for that year, and that mintset is currently being sold at the sujipbank and sujipmol websites (or anywhere else you can find it) in Korea for around $400US. SO: Somehow(?) the value of the coin is .30 cents??? I've always wondered how they come up with certain coin values...If I want to buy a 1999 5Won coin in MS, then I have to buy one of those mintsets. OR I can wait for a slabbed one to come up for sale somewhere, and that would easily sell for around $200US. THIRTY CENTS?? I wish![/QUOTE]
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