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Red Book on the coin market?

It used to be that the Redbook influenced the coin market especially on the collector side if not the price side. The days of buyer going down and wanted a coin based off of a low mintage or that main stream collectors wanted an error only if it was listed in the red book. Being in the red book used to make or break a coin.

I feel it is safe to say now days that the number one determining factor on an issue is Registries and if it is listed as a major variety by the TPG's.

Where does this leave the RED and it's listings. Do you think that more people will go to add a copy of the 1934 DDO Peace 1$ (for example)now that it has been added to the Redbook? Does this influence PCGS to make it more than a VAM and add it to the label for free? Or have the days of the Redbook influencing what a complete collection is has passed?

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The red book was appropriate when the information stream was

    very limited and slow and the price changes were fairly static.

    In todays world, the Red Book is anachronistic, except as a historical

    reference.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    I thought collecting was based on the holes in a Whitman Album.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought collecting was based on the holes in a Whitman Album. >>



    More often, its based upon the holes in ones head.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage

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