price guide question

MacCoin

does these monthly price guide you can buy in the paperback store come any were close to the graysheet prices?
I just to darm cheap or poor to send 100.00 a year on graysheets.

relayer

Just subscribe to Coin World and use a mulitiplier for the series you are interested in and save yourself $80 a year.

Lakesammman

If you really want to save money, you can go to the coin shows and find them (grey/blue sheets) laying around. Usually a month old but the markets not THAT hot. Past ebay auctions and Heritage auctions are another good reference point...better than the price guides since you get a feel for the quality of the coin too.

stujoe

I don't us Greysheet but might it be worth it to get their $13.75 pack if the market is not hot enough to warrant the most up to date issue all the time?

$13.75 pack

keets

hey mac

i've come close to getting asubscription to the greysheet a few times. i always talk myself out of it with the reasoning being that i could spend the money on coins instead!!!! realistically, if i would get the darn thing it'd probably save me money in the long run by having something i could reference. my choice would be the bluesheet since the local dealer lets me have old grey's. the real kicker for me, and what tells me i'm a penny-pincher at heart is that if i break it down, the yearly price works out to about 1-2 cups of coffee a day at work!!! LOL!!!

al h.

ARCO

I pick up a greysheet online about once every three months for $3.99. I use the retail guides in the magazines as another pricing guideline. If you collect choice original coins the Greysheet can be useless for determining price as you will miss out every time if you are fixated on Greysheet prices.

The retail guides are generally about 20-30% higher than the greysheet. Watching Ebay auction results will give you a close approximation of the going rates for most collector coins.

Tyler

merz2

Tyler
I agree,the auction results are the best guides to determine what you can expect to pay.coppercoins is trying to integrate Ebay,Heritage,Yahoo auction results on his site.There will be some useful info there one day.

misterR

Like ARCO, once a month at $3.99 is enough for me. "greysheet.com"

BillJones

The Gray Sheet is worthwhile for serious collectors. Just remember that it is only a guide, and it's numbers are not carved in store. REALLY NICE coins for the grade bring more than those prices in trades between dealers, especially if there is a big price spread for the next grade up. You also should bear in mind that real dealers pay Gray Sheet prices and more for really nice desirable coins. Don't expect to buy great stuff at those prices, but you shouldn't get skinned alive either with prices that are multiples of "bid."

I think that the Blue Sheet is a waste of time for collectors unless you are interested in the grades that the Gray Sheet does not cover, like MS-61 and 62 and Grades higher than 65. If you want to buy the junk in MS-63, 64 and 65 that trades at the "blind bid" prices, good luck to you. You might be shocked when you see it.