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This won't make any difference. These are actually bullion coins at current spot prices. It's my opinion that this is generally overstated, either that or a lot more people like to waste their money … (View Post)

For the coins I know best, it was/is mostly incorrect on pretty much everything and only mostly correct on the ranking for South Africa. It's pretty hard to even know relative rarity when most of coi… (View Post)

Beats me, because the biggest mystery to me is how Krause came up with prices for coins that never sold publicly and might not even exist. It's also quite interesting how prices for an entire series … (View Post)

More than fairly common, really common. For the 1881-S which is mentioned in the OP, the two services (NGC and PCGS) record about 634,000 (excluding "details" coins) grading events and give… (View Post)

To attempt to answer the question posed by the thread title, it's my observation, and by extension, assumption that list prices in these guides are for all intents and purposes just "made up&quo… (View Post)