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Getting the most from coin price guides -- periodic post
What follows is a distillation of many people's opinions and
observations, including my own. Additions and corrections are welcomed. This document is copyrighted -- please don't republish elsewhere. HMTL version available he http://rg.ancients.info/guide. Getting the most from coin price guides -- periodic post - - - IN A NUTSHELL: Price guides are just that -- guides -- and some of them appear to be guides to help dealers sell coins at attractive prices rather than accurate reflections of market prices. - - - How much a coin is worth is crucial information. It affects what you're willing to pay for a coin, what you're willing to sell it for, and how you look at and appreciate coins in general. There's lots of information about coin pricing out there, online and off. Some pricing guides are more accurate than others. No single guide is foolproof. All guides are approximations of market values. That's why, if you really want to know the market, you should also see what coins are actually selling for. Options include eBay and various auction houses, such as Heritage, Teletrade, Bowers and Merena, Stacks, and Classical Numismatic Group (for ancient coins), not to mention local and national coin shows and local coin shops. Here's a rundown of the most commonly used price guides for U.S., world, and ancient coins. Red Book Officially titled A Guide to United States Coins, the Red Book is a comprehensive book of U.S. coin retail prices with a list price of $12.95 and is available at most coin shops. It's a good book to have, but more for background information than for pricing. By the time the book is out, some of the pricing information in it is dated. Also, prices are included for far too few uncirculated grades. The Blue Book, officially titled A Handbook of United States Coins, is a similar, though smaller, book that includes the prices that dealers typically pay for coins. U.S. Coin Digest http://www.krause.com This is a new coin price book from Krause Publications (publisher of Coins Magazine, Numismatic News, and other periodicals), with a list price of $11.95. It's much like the Red Book, but it includes pricing for more grades. With Morgan dollars, for example, the Red Book has pricing for only six grades, while U.S. Coin Digest has prices for eleven grades (but it still ignores pricing for VF-30 grades). It also includes a bit more background information about coins in general. Greysheet http://www.greysheet.com Officially called the Coin Dealer Newsletter, this is a pricey subscription periodical, costing $98 per year (you can buy the current issue for $4). It's the most commonly used price guide by dealers in setting their own prices, and though it contains wholesale prices, it's a good choice for savvy collectors too. The prices are based on coins graded according to industry standards "as exemplified by PCGS and NGC," though pricing for properly graded raw coins is considered too in the compilation of its figures. Greysheet "bid" is the amount that dealers are typically willing to pay other dealers for a coin. Greysheet "ask" is the price dealers typically ask other dealers for a coin, which is higher. For collectors, one rule of thumb is to add 25 to 75 percent to bid when you're buying and to subtract 10 to 40 percent from bid when selling. The Bluesheet, officially called the Certified Coin Dealer Newsletter, includes bid prices for "sight-unseen" slabbed coins. These prices are lower than prices in the Greysheet. The Greysheet's biggest weakness is that the Coin Dealer Newsletter ignores the current state of the grading services. It ranks some of the services in terms of how the market values coins in their slabs. But it fails to rank SEGS, ACG, and NTC, three grading services that have a significant market presence. And it ranks two grading service with virtually no market share, INS (International Numismatic Society Authentication Bureau), which folded around 1992, and NCI (Numismatic Certification Institute), which folded around 1988. Whether deserved or not, this creates an aura of unreliability over all of its data. Coin World's Coin Values http://www.coinworld.com Formerly known as Trends, this is part of Coin World, another subscription periodical, costing $36.95 per year. Unlike the Greysheet, it provides retail pricing, and it's the most commonly used price guide for this purpose. It generally does a good job, but like all price guides, it can be inconsistent, with the prices for some series significantly above actual market prices and the prices for other series significantly below. Coin World itself can be a good way to keep up with developments in numismatics and a good read. Coin Values is also available as a stand-alone newsstand publication. Heritage's Value Index http://www.heritagecoin.com/info/prices.asp You have to register to access this information, but registration is free. The prices are based on wholesale and auction transactions for PCGS and NGC certified coins, which encompasses not only Heritage auctions but other observations of the marketplace. Impressively, pricing is given for a wide range of grades and include a range rather than a single value. With Morgan dollars, for instance, prices are included for forty different grades: P-1, FR-2, AG-3, G-4, G-6, VG-8, VG-10, F-12, F-15, VF-20, VF-25, VF-30, VF-35, XF-40, XF-45, AU-50, AU-53, AU-55, AU-58, MS-60, MS-61, MS-62, MS-63, MS-64, MS-65, MS-66, MS-67, MS-68, MS-69, MS-70, PR-61, PR-62, PR-63, PR-64, PR-65, PR-66, PR-67, PR-68, PR-69, and PR-70. You can also use the site to search for individual auction results. Teletrade USA Coin Price Guide http://www.teletrade.com/coins/search.asp?pguide=1 As with Heritage's Value Index, free registration provides access to this information. The prices are based on Teletrade's own auctions. Unlike Heritage's Value Index and the other price guides, the information here isn't presented in an easy-to-use grid. You search for prices realized in past auctions of coins based on parameters of your choosing, such as denomination, year, mint, grade, and slab. Teletrade Non-USA Coin Price Guide provides pricing information for world coins, from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia. PCGS Price Guide http://www.pcgs.com/prices The prices in this free online price guide are generally inflated compared with other retail price guides. It has been described as a dealer price list that includes higher-than-market prices that dealers would like to get for their coins rather than accurate reflections of the market. It can be useful, but you have to subtract about 25 percent to arrive at true retail prices, depending on the series. Numismedia Price Guide http://numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml This online service is similar to PCGS Price Guide, and it suffers from the same inflated pricing information. But beginning in February 2003, the service charges a subscription fee to see pricing for grades above MS-60 -- a whopping $96/year, with other subscription plans available. Compared to PCGS Price Guide, pricing is given for more grades. With Morgan dollars, for instance, while PCGS Price Guide provides grades for ten grades, Numismedia does so for twenty. Numismatic News, Coins Magazine, Coin Prices http://www.krause.com The price guides in these Krause Publications periodicals suffer mainly from lack of use compared with other more commonly used and quoted pricing information. A subscription to Numismatic News (weekly) is $32 per year, Coins Magazine (monthly newsstand magazine) is $25.98 per year, Coin Prices (bimonthly) is $18.98 per year. Numismatic News and Coins Magazine both include articles and lots of other useful information. COINage http://www.coinagemag.com This price guide has the same limitation as those in Krause Publications periodicals. An introductory subscription is $11.88 per year. COINage is a good read for the articles and columns. Standard Catalog of World Coins http://www.krause.com Krause Publications also publishes this guide, which is 2,304 pages and lists for $52.95. The book covers the period from 1901 to the present. Related Krause books include Standard Catalog of World Coins, 19th Century, 1801-1900; Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800; Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700. Despite their size, these books provide overviews rather than all-inclusive lists of world coins. Wildwinds http://www.wildwinds.com/coins This free online service provides auction results for ancient coins, primarily from eBay. Included are Greek, Roman, Celtic, and Byzantine coins. Attributions are included too, but they're only as trustworthy as the sellers offering them. CoinArchives.com http://www.coinarchives.com This is another free service that provides the auction results for ancient coins, but in this case primarily from European auctions, which are typically for higher-end coins than those auctioned through eBay. -- Email: (delete "remove this") Coin Collecting: Consumer Protection Guide: http://rg.ancients.info/guide Glomming: Coin Connoisseurship: http://rg.ancients.info/glom Bogos: Counterfeit Coins: http://rg.ancients.info/bogos |
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Bob Peterson wrote:
"Reid Goldsborough" wrote in message ... What follows is a distillation of many people's opinions and observations, including my own. Additions and corrections are welcomed. This document is copyrighted -- please don't republish elsewhere. HMTL version available he http://rg.ancients.info/guide. How can you copyright a work that you admit comes at least partially from other people? Did they sign over their rights to you? You can *claim* copyright over darn near anything you emit, but it's not worth *defending* copyright unless it's a thing of value. When Reid steals from other's, without attribution, in a piece for profit, he is the one in violation of copyright, which need not be noted, registered or applied for to be in force. Alan 'relinquishes nothing' |
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Bob Peterson wrote:
-How can you copyright a work that you admit comes at least partially from -other people? Did they sign over their rights to you? it's a compilation copyright. all the cited sources retain their copyright. -- # henry mensch / san francisco, california # |
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"Reid Goldsborough" wrote in message ... What follows is a distillation of many people's opinions and observations, including my own. Additions and corrections are welcomed. This document is copyrighted -- please don't republish elsewhere. HMTL version available he http://rg.ancients.info/guide. How can you copyright a work that you admit comes at least partially from other people? Did they sign over their rights to you? Getting the most from coin price guides -- periodic post - - - IN A NUTSHELL: Price guides are just that -- guides -- and some of them appear to be guides to help dealers sell coins at attractive prices rather than accurate reflections of market prices. - - - How much a coin is worth is crucial information. It affects what you're willing to pay for a coin, what you're willing to sell it for, and how you look at and appreciate coins in general. There's lots of information about coin pricing out there, online and off. Some pricing guides are more accurate than others. No single guide is foolproof. All guides are approximations of market values. That's why, if you really want to know the market, you should also see what coins are actually selling for. Options include eBay and various auction houses, such as Heritage, Teletrade, Bowers and Merena, Stacks, and Classical Numismatic Group (for ancient coins), not to mention local and national coin shows and local coin shops. Here's a rundown of the most commonly used price guides for U.S., world, and ancient coins. Red Book Officially titled A Guide to United States Coins, the Red Book is a comprehensive book of U.S. coin retail prices with a list price of $12.95 and is available at most coin shops. It's a good book to have, but more for background information than for pricing. By the time the book is out, some of the pricing information in it is dated. Also, prices are included for far too few uncirculated grades. The Blue Book, officially titled A Handbook of United States Coins, is a similar, though smaller, book that includes the prices that dealers typically pay for coins. U.S. Coin Digest http://www.krause.com This is a new coin price book from Krause Publications (publisher of Coins Magazine, Numismatic News, and other periodicals), with a list price of $11.95. It's much like the Red Book, but it includes pricing for more grades. With Morgan dollars, for example, the Red Book has pricing for only six grades, while U.S. Coin Digest has prices for eleven grades (but it still ignores pricing for VF-30 grades). It also includes a bit more background information about coins in general. Greysheet http://www.greysheet.com Officially called the Coin Dealer Newsletter, this is a pricey subscription periodical, costing $98 per year (you can buy the current issue for $4). It's the most commonly used price guide by dealers in setting their own prices, and though it contains wholesale prices, it's a good choice for savvy collectors too. The prices are based on coins graded according to industry standards "as exemplified by PCGS and NGC," though pricing for properly graded raw coins is considered too in the compilation of its figures. Greysheet "bid" is the amount that dealers are typically willing to pay other dealers for a coin. Greysheet "ask" is the price dealers typically ask other dealers for a coin, which is higher. For collectors, one rule of thumb is to add 25 to 75 percent to bid when you're buying and to subtract 10 to 40 percent from bid when selling. The Bluesheet, officially called the Certified Coin Dealer Newsletter, includes bid prices for "sight-unseen" slabbed coins. These prices are lower than prices in the Greysheet. The Greysheet's biggest weakness is that the Coin Dealer Newsletter ignores the current state of the grading services. It ranks some of the services in terms of how the market values coins in their slabs. But it fails to rank SEGS, ACG, and NTC, three grading services that have a significant market presence. And it ranks two grading service with virtually no market share, INS (International Numismatic Society Authentication Bureau), which folded around 1992, and NCI (Numismatic Certification Institute), which folded around 1988. Whether deserved or not, this creates an aura of unreliability over all of its data. Coin World's Coin Values http://www.coinworld.com Formerly known as Trends, this is part of Coin World, another subscription periodical, costing $36.95 per year. Unlike the Greysheet, it provides retail pricing, and it's the most commonly used price guide for this purpose. It generally does a good job, but like all price guides, it can be inconsistent, with the prices for some series significantly above actual market prices and the prices for other series significantly below. Coin World itself can be a good way to keep up with developments in numismatics and a good read. Coin Values is also available as a stand-alone newsstand publication. Heritage's Value Index http://www.heritagecoin.com/info/prices.asp You have to register to access this information, but registration is free. The prices are based on wholesale and auction transactions for PCGS and NGC certified coins, which encompasses not only Heritage auctions but other observations of the marketplace. Impressively, pricing is given for a wide range of grades and include a range rather than a single value. With Morgan dollars, for instance, prices are included for forty different grades: P-1, FR-2, AG-3, G-4, G-6, VG-8, VG-10, F-12, F-15, VF-20, VF-25, VF-30, VF-35, XF-40, XF-45, AU-50, AU-53, AU-55, AU-58, MS-60, MS-61, MS-62, MS-63, MS-64, MS-65, MS-66, MS-67, MS-68, MS-69, MS-70, PR-61, PR-62, PR-63, PR-64, PR-65, PR-66, PR-67, PR-68, PR-69, and PR-70. You can also use the site to search for individual auction results. Teletrade USA Coin Price Guide http://www.teletrade.com/coins/search.asp?pguide=1 As with Heritage's Value Index, free registration provides access to this information. The prices are based on Teletrade's own auctions. Unlike Heritage's Value Index and the other price guides, the information here isn't presented in an easy-to-use grid. You search for prices realized in past auctions of coins based on parameters of your choosing, such as denomination, year, mint, grade, and slab. Teletrade Non-USA Coin Price Guide provides pricing information for world coins, from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia. PCGS Price Guide http://www.pcgs.com/prices The prices in this free online price guide are generally inflated compared with other retail price guides. It has been described as a dealer price list that includes higher-than-market prices that dealers would like to get for their coins rather than accurate reflections of the market. It can be useful, but you have to subtract about 25 percent to arrive at true retail prices, depending on the series. Numismedia Price Guide http://numismedia.com/fmv/fmv.shtml This online service is similar to PCGS Price Guide, and it suffers from the same inflated pricing information. But beginning in February 2003, the service charges a subscription fee to see pricing for grades above MS-60 -- a whopping $96/year, with other subscription plans available. Compared to PCGS Price Guide, pricing is given for more grades. With Morgan dollars, for instance, while PCGS Price Guide provides grades for ten grades, Numismedia does so for twenty. Numismatic News, Coins Magazine, Coin Prices http://www.krause.com The price guides in these Krause Publications periodicals suffer mainly from lack of use compared with other more commonly used and quoted pricing information. A subscription to Numismatic News (weekly) is $32 per year, Coins Magazine (monthly newsstand magazine) is $25.98 per year, Coin Prices (bimonthly) is $18.98 per year. Numismatic News and Coins Magazine both include articles and lots of other useful information. COINage http://www.coinagemag.com This price guide has the same limitation as those in Krause Publications periodicals. An introductory subscription is $11.88 per year. COINage is a good read for the articles and columns. Standard Catalog of World Coins http://www.krause.com Krause Publications also publishes this guide, which is 2,304 pages and lists for $52.95. The book covers the period from 1901 to the present. Related Krause books include Standard Catalog of World Coins, 19th Century, 1801-1900; Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800; Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700. Despite their size, these books provide overviews rather than all-inclusive lists of world coins. Wildwinds http://www.wildwinds.com/coins This free online service provides auction results for ancient coins, primarily from eBay. Included are Greek, Roman, Celtic, and Byzantine coins. Attributions are included too, but they're only as trustworthy as the sellers offering them. CoinArchives.com http://www.coinarchives.com This is another free service that provides the auction results for ancient coins, but in this case primarily from European auctions, which are typically for higher-end coins than those auctioned through eBay. -- Email: (delete "remove this") Coin Collecting: Consumer Protection Guide: http://rg.ancients.info/guide Glomming: Coin Connoisseurship: http://rg.ancients.info/glom Bogos: Counterfeit Coins: http://rg.ancients.info/bogos |
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:40:56 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams
wrote: You can *claim* copyright over darn near anything you emit, but it's not worth *defending* copyright unless it's a thing of value. When Reid steals from other's, without attribution, in a piece for profit, he is the one in violation of copyright, which need not be noted, registered or applied for to be in force. Get some help, Alan Williams. Stop your lying. Stop this insane, obsessive belligerence to every message I post here. -- Email: (delete "remove this") Coin Collecting: Consumer Protection Guide: http://rg.ancients.info/guide Glomming: Coin Connoisseurship: http://rg.ancients.info/glom Bogos: Counterfeit Coins: http://rg.ancients.info/bogos |
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:35:31 -0600, "Bob Peterson"
wrote: How can you copyright a work that you admit comes at least partially from other people? Did they sign over their rights to you? Read the copyright law. Then get back to me. Also, this has been discussed here before. OK, I'll spare you: Ideas can't be copyrighted. Only the expression of them can be. -- Email: (delete "remove this") Coin Collecting: Consumer Protection Guide: http://rg.ancients.info/guide Glomming: Coin Connoisseurship: http://rg.ancients.info/glom Bogos: Counterfeit Coins: http://rg.ancients.info/bogos |
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Reid Goldsborough wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:40:56 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams wrote: You can *claim* copyright over darn near anything you emit, but it's not worth *defending* copyright unless it's a thing of value. When Reid steals from other's, without attribution, in a piece for profit, he is the one in violation of copyright, which need not be noted, registered or applied for to be in force. Get some help, Alan Williams. Stop your lying. Stop this insane, obsessive belligerence to every message I post here. Hint: Post fewer messages. Alan 'alt.sex.*' |
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"Reid Goldsborough" wrote in message ... Get some help, Alan Williams. Stop your lying. Stop this insane, obsessive belligerence to every message I post here. -- I did some browsing through a neat old book I found recently. Its full of old quotes and well-known stories. This bit, in a letter from a chap named Peter to some folk called the Galations (6:7), seemed kind of appropriate: "... for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Anybody spot the connection? Cool old book. Seems somehow familiar. That quote seemed true to me. Some would even say "gospel"! Jeff (not saved yet) |
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