Who Do You Trust For Pricing On US Circulated Coins?

Numismedia.com and e-Bay sold values.
John1

So far I like the Numismedia.com site. Thanks for the input.

Numismedia is a wholesale price list IMO. PCGS is just an inflated guide to sell their plastic. CoinWorld has a good retail price guide. And if someone comes at you with grey sheet pricing, just walk away. They are about to lowball you into purgatory.

I do not like using auction prices for one reason. Far too often coins go for way less than their value at auction, Heritage or not.

The famous Red Book by Whitman Publishing is normally excessive with prices of any coins. Never knew why but just is that way. Same with the PCGS and NGC web sites but those have a reason for over pricing. Sort of makes people want to send coins to them if the people think they are worth a lot.
What I do is use a 2010 Edition of the Red Book for pricing. Anyone that wants to charge me more than that is just forgotten by me. A 4 or 5 year old Red Book is cheaper to buy and the coin prices on Earth have finally gotten to what that edition states.
The main thing is to remember that almost all price guides are just that, GUIDES. They are supposed to be guiding you, not guaranteeing a price.
I like to buy at coin shows rather than any place on line. I've never found any internet sight, ebay or others, that can ever compare with a coin show.

double ditto

Here's the URL for Seated half dollars, for example, after signing in at wwww.ha.com:

http://coins.ha.com/ref/price-guide...gCategory=40

An easily accessible drop-down box is included on this page to view pricing for all other types of US coins.

Just remember when using this HA web site, however, that in order to get the most accurate wholesale pricing to strive for when purchasing from any seller one must:

1) look at the Numismedia Wholesale {NGC or PCGS} Bid(a.k.a. NWB)column and then

2) factor out the incorporated 17.5% buyers premium which is included in these prices and finally

3) factor out another $ 75(PCGS slab price) or $ 35(NGC slab price) as appropriate for each coin since these two costs are also included in these NWB prices.

In summary it appears that these NWB prices are:

1)very similar to Grey Sheet prices plus

2) they are constantly updated by HA to reflect current market conditions and

3) they are free to access by becoming a Heritage on-line user which is also free to sign up.

Also remember when reselling these coins using the above criteria one must obviously still add whatever desired profit margin to obtain from the buyer of your coins.

And finally one has to consider another expense if selling on-line: eBay/PayPal fees, for example etc.

If anyone disagrees with these above comments or has a better mousetrap which accomplishes the same or better end result at a lower cost, I am all ears and stand to be corrected or updated.

mdpmedia

my LCS sells to me at greysheet pricing, so I don't mind.