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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hey, Just wondering what people are using to value a coins/bills. Personally I use CaC for quick lookups and then Charlton when I have some time. But the differences between the two can be quick big (CaC being double what Charlton lists). Also you have ebay prices where certain items also go above both CaC and Charlton (1954 $5 Bills come to mind). So how do you value your coins/bills? And are there time where you don't care about the listed values and buy anyways? --James |
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Canada
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i use either as a guide to see what are sought after and ebay final sales as a 'real' value. charlton and CaC can print whatever numbers they want. final actual prices are what they are WORTH. |
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Canada
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I use some of the listing of Coin Shops on the web. See what is selling and what they sell for.
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 Canada
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For certified coins, the ASHRAP Reports used to be great resources for prices realized on ebay, but I don't think one has been published since 2008... Would love to see a digital (searchable PDF with multiple queries) version... how about it Zonad? "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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"Trends",is a price list included in Canadian Coin News.Though far from perfect,it's the best price guide out there.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Valued Member
Canada
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The problem with something like trends is that it is done by a dealer and there is a conflict in interest . The whole problem with pricing in the canadian market is that very few dealers control the market . In the US market , it is so much larger and the pricing is a little harder to control .
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Valued Member
Canada
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Furthering that, prices don't seem to be controlled by the market, but often by population which makes absolutely no sense. If I send in my horde of NFLD 1946 10 cents to ICCS to be graded the price in Charlton will drop because ICCS and Charlton are buddies, even though I haven't sold any.
Anyone who has the time to monitor auctions could become the number 1 source for Canadian prices quite easily. If there are lots of coins selling at half of trends there is something desperately wrong with the system.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I personally think a coin is only worth what someone is willing to pay, to be brutally honest. And from what I've seen, at the moment, not to many want to pay much. There are examples of that every where. When I hear that things are selling at half trends, that just makes me want to hang on to what I want to sell until prices come back up.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 At the end of the day, it's the price the buyer and seller agree on. Also, some coins work more like commodities and better follow posted prices, and some work more like stocks and move up and down with market 'sentiment', and some work more like pieces of art where it really depends on which buyer and which seller get together at which point and the variations can be quite dramatic. |
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