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With the understanding that any price guide is just that, a guide, which price guide do you prefer to use on coins not graded by a TPG? Numismedia (the official guide of NGC)? PCGS guide? Some other? Are subscription-based guides worth the money in usefulness over the free guides mentioned? Thanks in advance. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Gray Sheets. why not buy from the same guides the dealers do. From a accuracy standpoint, it has to to a periodical publication. Prices are changing so fast that you need constant updating.
Jim
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I certainly agree that constant updating is critical. The two free website resources do update regularly, at least weekly, I believe.
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actual realtime auction formats , Heritage ,teletrade ,and or ebay . |
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To gauge the market at any given time, I agree ebay,Heritage,Teletrade etc. But, I generally use Numismedia as a quick reference and greysheet on the bourse floor. swcoin.ecrater.com
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Thanks all. I have never seen a gray sheet. I've only heard lots of references to it. Any information you might care to share, like where it can be purchased, how often it comes out, how much it costs, do dealers really adhere reasonably closely to the listed prices, etc? Thanks in advance.
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Gray Sheet as a (guide),what ever one you choose it's just a (guide). John1  |
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Just goes to show not many of you are Darksiders!  Those of us from the Darkside have to work a little harder. There are a number of online sites with pricing "guides" there are the various auction sites and many countries have their own guides like Australias Pocket guide by Greg MacDonald or for the Canadians - Standard Catalog of Canadian Coins, Tokens and Paper Money. Greysheets and Redbooks are no help here  rggoodie
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I use numismedia the most. I actually have my spreadsheets set up to automatically update prices off of the numismedia price guide so I never have to worry about updating my prices after entering them
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Bedrock of the Community
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United States
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I called a dealer and had him come over to my house and evaluate my collection, actually just all the culls that I had. The guy pulled out that gray sheet faster then you know what and told me that was what all the deals use. Good thing I had done a lot of research before hand.
My take, everything is more believable when it's in black & white.
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Bedrock of the Community
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As for me there is a difference due to if you are selling or buying. When I go to a coin show I usually make a list of coins I am interested in. On that list I make several columns for prices. I then try Numismedia, then ebay, then the Red Book, Then the PCGS web site and occationally some on line dealers. I enter the prices in each column and on the last column I place the average price. Now at a coin show if the price of a coin is higher than my average and the dealer will not go down, I just don't buy. A little time consuming but interesting. |
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