What Service Recommended To Value Your Coins.

By all means, start with ebay sold prices.



to the CCF!

agree ebay sold price, however there are some site that can aggregate sold prices for particular items.

You said you mainly deal in gold and silver eagles. If you've got other stuff that's less common, then you may not find enough ebay sales to go by. I find Numismedia retail price site is good for that stuff. More realistic than the TPG sponsored sites.

For wholesale prices I buy a Whitman Blue Book every couple years. That is supposed to be a wholesale price based on what a coin dealer might offer you if you took it to them to sell. I'm sure it's more of a rough guess. And the grey sheet is much more accurate and timely, but it's also much more expensive. The blue book meets my minimal needs.

Greysheet is a great source, IMO.

It is great for history and technical information, but accurate pricing is not its strength. It is typically outdated by the time it is released and often reflects the high retail end of the price range. This might be okay when buying ("Buy it below that price!"), but encourages unrealistic lofty expectations when selling.

Thanks jbuck and Collects82 it makes sense.

Greysheet is good a monthly subscription, relating to wholesale prices for rare coins.

I think it was designed originally for dealer to dealer type transactions.

I'd assume you aren't looking to wholesale your coins, I don't think greysheet would be good for you as a gauge for that reason. it's sort of more about a dealer or rare coin buyer buying a coin from a dealer with "meat left on the bone". It's not that great from a sellers perspective unless you are looking for a, "fair price" to offload sitting merchandise or something to someone else that can sell it at retail. When buying greysheet is good, at least you'd know how low you could go before offering below wholesale. LOL

Not sure why the need for a valuation and don't want to be nosy about it either, just saying if you were trying to sell the items you'd want retail, not wholesale,
and if you wanted to dump them on a dealer, you'd need to expect a wholesale offer or lower for the dealer to take it off your hands.

The value now might not be the value next week, month or year, or 5 years from now. it's good to have an idea of course, but doing all the work into it, and have to do it again, and again, unless it's needed at that time period seems pointless to me UNLESS it's for insurance purposes, in which case, you'd probably want to find an appraiser, get the evaluation done and their valuation, and then re-use them every so often to revisit your policy coverage to make sure things haven't changed and you're covered get them cataloged and valued fr fair market, reasonable replacement values.

Again, not wanting to be nosy and you can do whatever you like, but the "why" is also a factor to how it's handled, and to do or not do certain things, when valuing a collection. considering what the end goal is before you begin, what you expect to achieve by doing it.

Clearly if it's a bunch of modern gold or silver eagles from Home Shopping in MS69 or PR69, you probably aren't going to want to spend the money on an insurance appraisal. LOL not saying it is or isn't, just saying, it wouldn't warrant the insurance or the cost for an appraisal unless it was a 1995W GAE proof set all graded and with the silver eagleor something like that, or a large accumulation of Gold and Silver eagles.

i wish you the best!