Silver Coin Question / Opinion

The numismedia guide is a final price price guide. Their prices are pretty accurate but not always dead on. ebay completed listings for common items are a good gauge too.

But in regards to your question no you dont add melt value on top of the numismedia price, theyve already included that in their pricing

I concur with Foxwoods Man. ebay throws a wildcard into the mix. The price a coin (or any other item) goes for in auction there is not always based on value, but rather on the desire of the purchasers. I use it as one reference among many to determine what I would pay for something but would never use it as a definitive price guide.

Any book or Internet listing is obsolete before it is published but are useful in determining relative values. Melt value obviously does not include any numismatic value so use that as a bare minimum value of a coin, the value goes up as condition, rarity and demand increases.

Selling your coins on ebay might be a cakewalk, however choosing the price of your listing definitely isn't. Search on a few sites for the price of coins like yours, average it and quote that as the start price of your bid. Too high price often discourage bidding. You may also want to use the ‘reserve price' facility wherein you can, say keep the hidden price as $2.89 and the bid-starting price as $3.89. This is one of the ways people use to stimulate bidding....