Trending prices.

keets · December 6, 2019 5:25AM

Which way are prices trending on the specific series' that you collect or follow?? I noticed this morning that for Walking Liberty Half-Dollars some of the dates/grades that I am interested in have continued to move down. My reference is the PCGS online price guide. Can you opine about any that you follow??

Thanks in advance.

Al H.

SimpleCollector · December 6, 2019 5:39AM

Patriotic Civil War Tokens seem to be steady or perhaps slightly increasing in prices. Have not won an auction at my fair value price in the last few months (coins in the $30-$200 price range).

Generic older gold, while the prices (say melt plus 5-10%) aren’t changing, the quality of coins seems to be going up. Seeing many more ms 63 and Au58 In that price range, some even with stickers. This seems to indicate that prices on generic gold are dropping, with more coins just worth melt plus a small premium.

jmlanzaf · December 6, 2019 5:43AM

I can't think of a single coin series that has rising prices. NOTE, I said series. You can tell me about the great value in some absolute or condition rarity, but pretty much all of the SERIES are flat to decreasing.

Error coins seem to be appreciating as do many areas of exonumia. This is probably largely supply driven as those items are not nearly as common as most coins.

bolivarshagnasty · December 6, 2019 6:19AM

The PCGS 3000 index provides a general direction of the coin market. With the exception of a bump early this year, the index has been descending since 2015. On a side note, I have probably single handedly killed the error coin market as I have purchased a few for a small project I've been working on. Sorry about that Jon, Fred, and Chris.

WaterSport · December 6, 2019 7:19AM

I am not feeling any love in Lincoln values. In fact, I see losses in cents I need to sell soon that were the victims of upgrades.
WS

Coinstartled · December 6, 2019 7:33AM

Not seeing much strength in the categories i follow. Modern gold commems are still hugging the toilet. $10 Library in MS has
improved a bit. CC Morgans are steady in mid grades and sleepy at higher grades.

TwoSides2aCoin · December 6, 2019 8:11AM

Availability keeps prices at good entry levels ( for hobbyists) .... it's upgrading which gets costly in every series. ( for me)

291fifth · December 6, 2019 8:18AM

Where are all those "internet only" young collectors we keep hearing about?

ctf_error_coins · December 6, 2019 8:26AM

@291fifth said:
Where are all those "internet only" young collectors we keep hearing about?

They are on Instagram, for sure.....

kevinstang · December 6, 2019 9:08AM

@291fifth said:
Where are all those "internet only" young collectors we keep hearing about?

They might be starting to come out of the woodwork, last show we did in Syracuse had a young fellow of about 25 years age purchase a nice 3 cent silver we had (1851O) . Said he had been buying most of his coins online but that the new sales tax being charged on ebay purchases made him decide to check out some local coin shows! He was surpised by the number of good coins available and their prices- with dealers willing to negotiate prices.

ReadyFireAim · December 6, 2019 11:09AM

Saints appear overall steady during the last year.
Some are up and others down but there doesn't seem to be any pattern.
(not counting top pops or "old bullion")

Raybo · December 6, 2019 6:35PM

I don't want to look, but I will keep collecting.

jmlanzaf · December 6, 2019 7:16PM

@kevinstang said:

@291fifth said:
Where are all those "internet only" young collectors we keep hearing about?

They might be starting to come out of the woodwork, last show we did in Syracuse had a young fellow of about 25 years age purchase a nice 3 cent silver we had (1851O) . Said he had been buying most of his coins online but that the new sales tax being charged on ebay purchases made him decide to check out some local coin shows! He was surpised by the number of good coins available and their prices- with dealers willing to negotiate prices.

Lucky for him so many dealers are tax cheats...

[Just saying...]

savitale · December 6, 2019 9:33PM

Seated dimes are flat to slightly up over the past 10 years.

Zoins · December 6, 2019 11:35PM

Washingtoniana has gone through the roof with the Baker collection sale. I'm waiting to see if this is a permanent change or if things will go back to the way they were before.

CollectorBonEZ · December 7, 2019 4:25AM

I have noticed a downward trend in the last few years for all common dates and grades across the board, but the high grade rarities seem to be going up a little. Toned coins seem to be in an upward trend right now as well.

winesteven · December 7, 2019 11:41PM

Several months ago I started putting together two CAC sets after I noticed that prices of high grade coins have come down quite significantly over the past few years AND where the differential in pricing is very minimal between those coins with CAC’s and those without - 50 coin Classic Silver Commemorative Type Set and Lincoln Wheat Cent Date Set, all in red.