How Does The Charlton Guide Come Up With Its Price Estimates?

Not a snowball's chance in H-E double hockey sticks a dealer will buy your coins at this percentage.

Those days are long, long gone.

More like 35% and most dealers don't even want to buy at all.

There will always be these exceptions to the rule.

I'm talking about going into a dealer's shop and having a box of ICCS Canadian coins to sell.

Good coins, not junk, but not key dates either.

Let's say coins like 1916 10c in ms63, 1940 25c in ms64, 1919 5c in ms63.

Good coins right?

Try selling those at 50 to 60%.

Good luck.

95% of the coin prices listed in Canadian Trends should be sliced in half......50%....then and only then you have a more realistic value of Retail.

Then a dealer would offer 50% to 60% of this new value (which would equate to the dealer offering 25% to 30% of the present, overvalued amount).

See, this make sense now, doesn't it?

It is a very good time for collecting.

Just do it for the passion and not for the profit and be firm on the price you want to pay for a coin.

Don't let a dealer bamboozle you into thinking the market is strong so thay can justify their high prices.

Pay between 50% to a maximum of 70% of trends.

If this is too low for the dealers, then you can be patient and find it eventually on ebay, most likely for 40% to 60% of trends.

I've been actively buying and selling in this market (to dealers and on ebay) since 1999, so I should know a thing or two about pricing.

Out west here, dealers are basically trying yo give away stuff at half of trends. Even key date ICCS and PCGS graded Victorian stuff is not moving at 50% discount of trends. If this is happening now, what will happen when the financial situations of collectors and people who had disposable income to spend on coins etc.? I can tell you it's heading the way of the stamps out west here (if its not a key date or high grade it is basically selling for face or melt value) Right now everyone I know is selling more bullion and almost no actual numismatic coins.

I haven't really sold any coins to any dealers for a few years but 50% was the norm a few years back. I use all coin book prices as a point to work from not really a set price but a starting point for bartering. I agree with Pacificoin about nice graded coins will move better than common grades if graded they move even better, I prefer EF and better myself. Common coins will always be less money more to choose from, the higher the grade the better. I think variety coins have an edge on regular coins of the same year. My opinion only

@silverwolf ......darn , competition already ! Trouble is we won't get offered 1 NICE coin at those levels .
As to the comments about going the way of Stamp Collecting , umm no never going to happen.
In fact some of my stamp colleagues are seeing increasing prices!

There are deals to be found if you look around. For example I picked up some MS-60 to MS-64 ICCS graded victorian large cents at 60% off of trends with the impression to trade/sell and then pick up some key dates with the fund etc. I managed to sell most to get my money back and make $5-10/coin but jeez it is not wort the time and effort. With regards to key dates at discounts, I have managed to pick up keys such as '25 nickels for 50% of trends all day long now. Even some keydate Victorian NFLD which were graded in EF+ I have been offered at 50% and I have passed on them. I believe this to be the beginning of a harsh new reality of the market. Don't get me started on the Canadian paper money market out west here... Have been picking up 1937 series and devil's face for close to face...