PCGS Price History (price performance)......what is your take on this?

coinsarefun

Just messing around today and never did a price performance check on my coins so decided to
run a few coins today for giggles.

I know that grading curves and auctions have a major role in the price performance but still interesting non the less.
I also know there is no one way to get a true price performance from just one input but I think PCGS info is a great help.

I took a few of my coins at random including everything from a Washington Grate Colonial to a modern Ike in MS66.
Surprisingly(at least to me) the Washington Grate performed the best and the 44-S in MS66 faired the worst.


Anyone else do this? If so what are your thoughts? Does this or can this influence coins collected?




Years 2004-2013

crypto79

Common modern/ 20th Cen coins prices are contingent on the infinitely variability of eye appeal which is hard to grasp using statistics. You will always see larger swings coin to coin compared to really rare stuff where the buyer kind of has to take what he can find. Also because of these swings dealers tend to buy at a larger spread to protect themselves and it is equally hard to ascertain collector value off of retail sells, the data is too one-sided and doesn't account for the non-sales and spreads.

ambro51

Usefully useless

coinbuf

An interesting exercise for your brain but it really does not tell you anything of relivance. For instance the data could be telling you that those coins in those grades have become much less rare (the pops have increased) in that time frame, or that those series have fallen out of favor with collectors. The only insight that you can get is that you might (depending on eye appeal as memtioned) take a loss if you sell those coins now.

s4ny

I find it quite useful. If you look at 10 year charts on many coins you will see that
two broad categories of coins have done well:

1) coins with a lot of gold, MS62 and lower Saints and Libs, and generic gold in general.

2) ultra rare date coins - the cream of the crop.

coinsarefun

Interesting input so far, anyone else?

WaterSport

Hey, its the market. I am a collector, not an paranoid investor. So it means nothing to me.

WS

lava

A primo coin will bring primo money, regardless of trends and history. Maybe not so much for modern widgets, but the older stuff, where interest in a coin can vary based on things like strike, clashing, cracks, etc.