Paper Money Value

Price guides are so suggestive of what prices should be (in the estimation of the person putting the guide together), and they are no longer reality, although they are a good indication of a note's worth relative to other notes.

Reality of what a piece is worth is the price it actually goes for in the marketplace. Take a sample note and research paper money auctions and ebay to get a much clearer picture.

If I'm not mistaken, Coins magazine shows paper money prices, but not in any great detail. Another caveat is that Coins is a Krause publication, and that makes it automatically suspect, since in my books, Krause isn't necessarily an authority on the price of anything; they have so many price guides on so many diverse collectibles, some of which only serve to undermine their credibility (see, for example, any volume of Warman's Guide to Antiques, which looks like their researchers just basically went around to a lot of garage sales).

Bank Note Reporter and the Greysheet's cousin, the CDN Greensheet