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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It seems that finding this type of data at a one-stop-shop is never possible. I realize that one could go to 'advanced' in ebay to see the most recent sales of classic varieties but this info is only available as long as the seller keeps their terminated auction's details on-line. And several price guides only display select varieties. When I refer to 'all' varieties, I mean the significant or rare ones: not $ 5 or $10 etc. I need some ideas. |
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Moderator
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ebay sold values, GC sold values, Heritage Auctions sold values, Stacks Auction sold values. John1 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree. These are always up to date with what is actually being paid.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Makes no difference what someone says a coin is worth. All that matters is what they are selling for so ebay is sort of the place for actual values. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Internet connections are notoriously unreliable and slow just when you need some information quickly. This can be the case especially at smaller trade shows that do not have adequate symmetrical (upload and download) bandwidth availability or reliable setups (signal repeaters, routers etc.) for multiple simultaneous connections.
I should've been more specific but I was hoping to find some sort of printed material that I could quickly grab the US variety prices for all years when needed. Is there some sort of 'paper' publication that I could purchase with pricing for these varieties?
I agree that the price you get is ideally based upon what the most recent sales are. However, a type of backup hand held printed list of prices would at least give me something to personally refer to or show to a prospective buyer quickly etc.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In the larger sense, I concur with the auction venues being a worthy indicator of coin values. That said, I've been able to cherry-pick many scarce to rare coin/token varieties from all of these auction sites. Of course, these events were exceptions to the rule, but it's happened a few dozen times for me.
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eBay sold values, GC sold values, Heritage Auctions sold values, Stacks Auction sold values. Auction values are typically only useful for "fungible-type" coins, like a modern Kennedy in PR69 condition. When it gets to classic coins, eye appeal probably plays as much a role as grade. So, one 1837 Seated Liberty dime in AU58 condition does not have to price the same way as another 1837 Seated Liberty dime in AU58 condition. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I kept searching for an answer to this elusive one-stop-shop price guide challenge for both mods' and classics' varieties to no avail. Being totally frustrated over the impending anguish to 'possibly' find this critical info. for use in a time-effective manner during a busy trade show, I found it in a locale that never crossed my mind before as a viable option. Using Worthpoint's 7 free looks 'try before you buy' offer I took a chance to find a variety. As a trial balloon I inputted 'Scarface Morgan $1' at worthpoint.com. Unbelievably, 396 results popped up to choose from. They showed sale dates, 'sold' auction gallery prices, TPGs, slab photos, auction house names (Stack's & Bowers, Heritage, & ebay etc.) & variety ref. #s etc. Furthermore, I could not believe it when it detailed specific verbiage of even very obscure varieties within lesser collected series like Half Dimes, for example. One 'sold' listing read as: 'RPD-001 V-3b Breen 3099 1860/1860Repunched 1 South seen at base'. This was associated with an un-slabbed coin at an ebay auction in April of 2019. The Greysheet guides typically only cover the major varieties. Also what's nice is that the T & Cs for WP data storage capabilities allegedly cover a time period going back ten years. This is more than enough time for me. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My personal proposed MO:
Now I'm searching for URLs containing the most exact matching TPG/grade, variety #, sales price and most recent sale date of any coin or currency I wish to sell. This should be a great tool to have available at a fast moving trade show.
Well in advance of any tradeshow I will have secured the most appropriate URL. Then also I will have inputted it into a non-PDF 'interactive' Excel sheet to quickly bring up the price when needed.
This may seem like too much pre-show work to some folks for 100s of varietal coins. But thinking it through, a majority of buyers most likely would buy the coin from me since I would have done my homework in advance saving her/him a lot of undesirable research grunt work etc.
And if you think about it, many prospective buyers at tradeshows buy coins on impulse anyway with no preparatory pricing routine aside from carrying around a Greysheet that's hit or miss at best ref varieties.
I have not tried this approach yet but I speculate that my sales close % for most hard-to-find coins should be a significantly higher number based upon a more efficient use of my time at trade shows while physically interacting with several prospects.
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