How do you find the pricing guides for "off grades" in the PCGS Price guides?
TahoeDale
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In using the PCGS price guides, several series have limited published prices for certain grades.
In Early and capped bust halves, the EF is for 40, and the AU is for 55. No pricing for EF 45, 50, 53, 58.
I have seen pricing for these non-listed grades when researching archives on Heritage. Is there any other way to pull up the data from PCGS for an AU 58? I know their data includes such pricing, but I have not been able to find it anywhere, other than when a specific coin is sold.
Overall, I think PCGS does a superb job in it's guide. But it would be nice to have all the grades available.
In Early and capped bust halves, the EF is for 40, and the AU is for 55. No pricing for EF 45, 50, 53, 58.
I have seen pricing for these non-listed grades when researching archives on Heritage. Is there any other way to pull up the data from PCGS for an AU 58? I know their data includes such pricing, but I have not been able to find it anywhere, other than when a specific coin is sold.
Overall, I think PCGS does a superb job in it's guide. But it would be nice to have all the grades available.
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if AU is 1500 and XF is 800....
that means an AU50 would be somewhere in the middle!
genius.
price guides for coin collecting is for rough estimates.. not
a god given truth.
this lemming mentality works in my benefit though so i should
not complain too much. most people follow them so closely you
know what you should snipe at and slightly above.
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I have been using your method for years-- for the in between grades. And while it is only a guide, many dealers will price their coins in the approx range of the PCGS data.
And while I do go to the Registry, and edit my sets, to see the pricing on my coins, I still would like to be able to access the data directly.
Guess I will go to the source. If I find anything out, I will report.
In my experience, all price guides have the same limitations, some more glaring and idiosyncratic. The AU-58 grade is probably one of the most commonly traded grades for $3 gold pieces, yet Trends chooses to publish prices for F-12, but not AU-58. Did you ever try to find the value of a rare date gold coin in AU-55 in Greysheet? For a 1901-S $5, the AU-55 value is probably somewhere in between the AU50 and the AU-58, which are about $20 apart or so, so it really does not matter that much. For an 1859-O $10, AU-55 is the finest known, and it matters a whole heck of a lot.
<< <i>or use your own noodle to figure it out roughly.
if AU is 1500 and XF is 800....
that means an AU50 would be somewhere in the middle!
genius.
price guides for coin collecting is for rough estimates.. not
a god given truth.
this lemming mentality works in my benefit though so i should
not complain too much. most people follow them so closely you
know what you should snipe at and slightly above. >>
For grades in the middle, I usually don't go the complete halfway---I usually go about 35 or 40%. For example, a 1903-s Morgan is $300 in XF40, $1500 in AU50. But an XF45 is not $900. More like $550
well said...........al
<< <i>...it would be nice to have all the grades available. >>