New 'Free' NGC/Krause Online World Coin Id/Price Guide Eval.

i just dont like the required information selections,

"region" should = all by default (or an optional input)

country/catalog number/date should be enough, or any of the 2, in order to bring the drop down selection list.

on a lot of mid east / oriental coins I have NO idea what the denominations are... making it required means I have to research the coin somewhere else before I use their interface to look up a value.

if you want to look up a coin that you already know about I guess it would work fine.

Thanks for sharing information. Our friend turtleoverhead said something important about the prices: How far can we trust in prices provided from Krause catalogs?

Do you strictly follow those prices when buying/selling/trading?

Recently I bought a Fine KM-0513 for about US9,00. Krause catalog said around U$2,50. Searching internet I found prices over 30 Euro for a coin this grade. If I look at Krause I got sad, so I prefer to believe in coins sales sites :)

I am not sure how to get a feel of going market rate for coins as Krause seems to be unrealistic. What I have been doing is to look up MA shops which usually has higher end dealer prices and ebay completed listing for US (as I am based in US and I don't from outside US/Canada). Maybe there is a better way to do this ?

I have been using google to search for coins and then use both above NGC woprld coin price guide and Numista (free) to gather information. NGC has most of the information like mintage, weight and diameter, price and Numista has the edge inscription/lettering in addition which I feel very useful to weed out fakes.

Example. for my recent buy from ebay of 1869 saxony thaler

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/Wo...mSearch=true

http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24293.html

Using Bacchuss's 60 pound average figure I estimate you're talking about 93 USD using:

http://themoneyconverter.com/GBP/USD.aspx

I am also very pleased that a majority of CCF members seems to have found this NGC/Krause Publications' World Coin guide useful.

The variety information and the continually-updated retail pricing for each grade are a couple of the highlights of this tool in my opinion.

I do often wonder who we could light a fire under, however, to have more photos included since it still appears to be at less than 50% complete overall in this department.

Would organizations like NGC typically and readily accept unsolicited coin photos from anonymous users for posting on a site like this?

Just imagine if all users of this site pitched in by sending in a photo when applicable. It would help everyone in the long run including NGC financially.

Many times an accompanying photo lessens the amount of combined search and identification time one must spend to complete a task etc.

If anyone at CCF knows NGC management, possibly Bobby could get the OK from them to send out a broadcast email to CCF members requesting that photos be sent in to NGC whenever a blank space appears next to the written verbiage...

Otherwise, I personally have not yet found anything else out there better on the web for free so I really cannot complain too much...

mdpmedia