1957 German Mark - Krause Value

Hey, I do not have a later edition of the guide but like you said, you should take values from catalogs with a few grains of salt. IMO, you should even almost completely disregard catalog prices if you want to have a general idea of the value of an item. You may already know that, but sometimes an item is worth 5 times less than the value in the catalog. What does that tell you ? Even if you see a huge increase in the value from one edition to another, your best chance of getting a general idea of the current value of an item is to check by yourself how much an item sells for currently on websites such as ebay and other places where that item is sold.

I believe the NGC listing has the current Krause values. It's at $100 in EF.

Part of the problem with overvaluing may be that whoever is supplying Krause with pricing data for these coins is using the stricter German/European grading standard. So for "EF" in the catalogue, you should be reading it as "AU".