Tell the truth...do you ever peruse CoinValues Price lists?

jdillane

I will admit that I do. A few years ago I did fairly regularly. Then pretty much stopped. But a few months ago, one of their weekly articles discussed the challenges of keep up with the market, esp re capped bust halves. They did make adjustments on most of the early silver series, some of them quite dramatic. But the CBH's continue to languish with only a couple early dates updated. My curiousity was piqued and still is. Seems the updates are long overdue even if the results need a grain or two of salt to swallow.

So, if you look, why do you look?

tightbudget

Yes out of curiosity at times.

Julian

yes

STONE

I look at it and use it as a reference at shows. I won't buy at the prices listed, but it does help guage cost when I'm unfamiliar with a series.

tombr

Yes, What Stone said

RYK

In the old days when I collected rare date gold, it was a valuable source for pricing information. As a generality, 60% of CV/Trends was wholesale, 75-80% retail, and 100% high-retail or the max I would consider paying for a rare or exceptional piece. (Of course, the max was occasionally exceeded). It was far better than GreySheet, PCGS price guide, Numismedia, etc. in this area. For more volatile areas like generic gold or whatever happened to be "hot", it does not appear to be as useful.

I still refer to it regularly.

guitarwes

yep, I just did a few seconds ago. Mostly for a round-a-bout guide.

-wes

zeebob

I bring it to shows and use it to gauge a dealers "retail" price. Seems I sell at 10% below Greysheet bid and buy at 10% above Coin Values retail price.

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PCcoins

I've noticed the prices in CoinValues are about double the price coins usually sell for.

ricko

When I did get the magazine, I looked at several different coin values.... that being said, my purchases have nothing to do with 'written' prices... I just like to understand the market range, so I look at different sources. When I negotiate prices, it is for my benefit. Cheers, RickO

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jdillane

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<< <i>I've noticed the prices in CoinValues are about double the price coins usually sell for. >>






and then the value remains unchanged in the magazine for what seems like years and then during the next wave it is changed again. So eventually it becomes a correct valuation, if you have the patience to wait for the market to catch up to their price valuations that is. >>






Perhaps when they changed the name from Trends, they should have changed it to Futures!

OnlyGoldIsMoney

Never. Too many of the quoted values are inflated in the series I collect. I rely on Heritage and Teletrade auction archives to assess coin values when buying and selling.

BlindedByEgo

It has always been a good quick reference, but the prices rarely represent reality.

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Halfhunter06

i use it as a guide for myself. When it comes to coins that you cant find in Greysheet CoinValues comes in handy. Most of the time I just divide the CoinValues price in half and then use that number as my buying tool. (This is for modern coins, not a rare date Morgan or anything)

fc

never. the coins i like, i watch them sell and judge their value to me.
things like ebay and heritage are the best sources for watching.

MrObvious

Interesting replies. I review it fairly regularly, but find that for the seated material I collect it is also usually off. For common dates it's about right, for better dates it's about 50% to 70% of what you have to pay to get a nice problem free example, and for the rare dates the coin values price is frequently 25% to 40% of the actual retail price (for problem free coins).

KCC

Peruse? Yes. Believe?

Type2

I need to look at somthing in the bathroom. I did find a cool article in the Coinage Mag september 2008 Volume 44 #9 page-62. Talks about the forum here how we are on top of things, how breaking news gets out to a the forum so fast and how the 2008 Silver eagle with the 2007 reverse was posted here 1st this was a cool little report.

Frankcoins

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It's a fair price guide for retail sales. if you have a B&M shop, and must pay employees, rent, taxes, insurance, advertising, utuilities, you cannot sell merchandise at wholesale levels and stay in business.