Coin Values

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A little bit of everything.

I put other, I get all my prices for coins out of the Numismatic News monthly price guide. And I will not pay more for a coin unless it meets my grading standards I just don't care what other people are willing to pay for a coin and I know what I think a coin is worth and I will pay no more, at least that is the way it seems to me.

Bruce.

I picked magazines. since I have seen alot of dealer using Coin Values to price there coins they are selling, were I see almost all use the Grey sheet when buying. I got my first gray sheet last week. I really enjoyed reading it but I also no that most dealer will not sell coin to me at this price.
The dealer I go to in town sells most of his stuff to me at the ask price in the grey sheet. but I know he is a very rare dealer most of them I have bought from at show I have found they are very close to the same price as coin values if not a little higher. just what I have found. so I will not ussally pay more then coin value for any US coin. But I do no that I probaby overpay on my silver foriegn bullion dollars. since most of these are much higher then melt but even thought I feel I am over paying for these now I feel that with most of there mintage number it will pay off down the road.

I don't use any foriegn price guides so I can not give an opion on those.
I guess if all of the coiins I was buying were MS or higher then I might have a different veiw on this but since I buy mostly lower priced coins then most of the guides are prity close to the price I cna get them for.

I'm like everybody else. I use a mix of book value, ebay and coin magazine values. I set my buy price before I start searching on ebay and then stick to it so I don't get carried away with auction fever. Once I've been outbid I just sit back and watch to see how high it goes. Sometimes I'm really surprised how high bidders will run up the final cost. I've had better luck buying from small local dealers than ebay.

I use all of the above and especially my own opinion and the amount I am willing to pay.

Madspec

As I know nothing about American coin values and pricing, I just find it odd that no one has made mention of Krause's Calalogue of World Coins.
I know that in relation to Australian coin values, their prices are almost completely out of whack. All values quoted are generally too low, sometimes as much as 70-80%.
Does anyone have any comments on countrys' other than Oz or USA.
As for a reference, I use th same book as snooba.
regards,

I checked PCGS only because it is the easiest and fastest to reference. I use their price times 65-70% for bidding purposes on PCGS coins. On NGC coins I use numismedia values. I also use teletrade for a reference as well as heritage on occasion. I think legend auctions are very user friendly also. They post the grey sheet bid/ask price as well as Coin Universe and what they expect the auction to bring. They are fairly new so the past auction prices are not complete thus not reliable yet.

ebay b/c a coin is worth only what another person is willing to pay for it!