Which price guide as of today is most accurate?
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Full disclosure, I am old and lazy (please don’t tell the wife I admitted this 🙂) and when I price coins I like to rely on price guides. I know guides are just guides and I should be looking at actually completed sales on eBay, gc, heritage, …… which I do from time to time, except guides say they generate their figures from sales data, expert opinions, ….. and some provide information like survival estimates which I like.
I currently use Greysheet, cpg, PCGS, and Ngc and I know there are more.
I know this topic has been brought up before in different ways but as of today which price guide is the most accurate from a wholesale and retail perspective?
Thank you in advance for your comments.
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I prefer CPG for realistic retail values, the PCGS guide is often too optimistic imo.
Edited to add- And CDN for wholesale, respectively.
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The price in the brick-and-mortar store or perhaps online.
I use GC and eBay completed sales for less expensive coins and mostly look at auction prices for more expensive coins.
Past sales from GC and Heritage.
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I agree with some posters above, price guides are often obsolete by the time they are printed these days. Also, price guides don’t account on a coin by coin basis, but more on the general “guidelines” approach. eBay completed sales, especially on $500 or less coins I think is a pretty good representation of the market on that given week.
My main area of focus is colonial era coinage and Civil War tokens, ephemera, etc. These have no accurate price guide, nor really could one be made. Each coin is different in its own merit, so experience and comfort in a bid is really the price guide.
Anyone here ever consult the Numismedia on-line price guide?
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Past sales on GC, PCGS auction site for coins of the same quality. I only use pricing from coins I would have bought. If a coin has "problems" that would have kept me from buying it I do not consider the price it sold for.
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Yes, I have but just as a guide for ballpark estimates. http://www.numismedia.com/rarecoinprices/fmv.shtml
I'm not a major buyer or seller. I use eBay recent sales for current market values.
i like numismedia as well. i think that one if thr price is up or down, fwiw
If the TPG'ers price guides were accurate, I would off-load this one!!