Where To Get Pricing For Jefferson Nickels And Modern Comms?

I use NumisMedia.

http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml

This is their collector price guide, which is closer to retail. Do no expect these prices if selling to a dealer.

I agree with others, numismedia is a good guide for
modern coins.

Only place I have seen sets like "coin and currency" is in
RedBook. At end of commemorative section.

Of course you can always check ebay sold listings.

I'm not looking to have the value of my coins estimated. I'm looking for the approximate prices that I can expect to pay at coin shows. I'm sure you'll understand that I don't want to overpay. Of course I don't mind underpaying.

I don't which one might convince him (probably the latter), but I have to have some basis for requesting a lower price. I need some reliable source of information as all these values can't possibly be kept up with in my head. I'll use whichever source presents my argument for a lower price best and he'll use whichever source presents his argument for a higher price best.

I've also found that some dealers are way out of line from the start. I don't even want to bother with them. Other dealers give you their best price from the start. If I think it's a good deal, then I'll probably just pay them. For the ones that are close, but not quite where I need the price to be, we'll talk and see how things pan out.

Why doesn't this site have a spot for a pricing guide? Or a forum for pricing things? So you could post your coins and get opinions on value etc?

You're not stupid enough to do it? I don't get that logic, because you're saying other sites who do offer that are stupid?
It does take effort, but I think it's an effort that makes sense on a coin website. Precise value's don't exist, just general points on where to begin with valuing your coin.
And to your second part, I said why don't you have a forum where people ask for pricing help. Instead of scattered topics throughout various forum headlines. It would put them in a joined group and be easy to find to not only reply, but to post. I know that sites make money off of posts, I know of a former person who worked on a forum for something and would get paid for posting. But to say it's stupid, is discounting what a lot of people come here for. Even asking in here is just an educated guess on somebody's part, what it always comes down to is what somebody is willing to pay for what you have.

Because it is better and more efficient to ask pricing in the appropriate forum for the coin in question. This allows those focused on the type of coin to answer. We cannot expect an early copper expert to scroll through hundreds of uninteresting posts in a "Pricing Forum" to find one post they can answer when they can find that one post in a forum where they already read every post.

We'd rather you spoke up ideas that maybe weren't great, than keep them to yourself. Nobody here is done learning, most of all those of us helping to run the place. And thank you for taking all this as civil discussion - the last thing we want to do is alienate new members.

It is a known problem in online communities that ever more specialized subforums dilute the audience and end up creating more confusion than helping. It actually aids the effective dissemination of information to keep the number of individual sources as small as possible. The point you raise is just the same as (for instance) creating subforums for each issue.

Further, in numismatics the curiosity about grade is almost always accompanied by curiosity about value. They go hand-in-hand, as a given.

We've been working every day on refining this place for ten years, and this isn't our first experience. I, for instance, have been Moderating since 2000 here and at other fora. We've learned a bunch about how coin forums need to work - mostly through experience (spell m-i-s-t-a-k-e-s), and although we're pretty comfortable with where things are today, we're ready for that to change tomorrow because change is the only constant.

Funny, that also describes prices.

Whenever you see me suggest a price for a coin on this forum, my estimate is based only on real-world sales of coins I looked at that day. I don't know this stuff off the top of my head - when you guys ask I go out on Google and find it for you. And I'm doing a hundred posts a week of that. I cannot imagine trying to maintain a price guide I'd consider current.

It is seriously, in the age of Google and Bookmarks, as fast to look up real world sales as it is to look up published prices. And those real-world prices are accompanied by images so good you can grade them yourself and decide whether it was a good or bad price for the coin.

Now that I've said all that, I'm not going to stop thinking about your idea or how/if we could implement it.