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Coin Values

Are Coin Prices in Most Coin Catalogs Accurate?

April 29, 2010

Coin collectors of all stripes, from novices to experts, frequently make the same mistake when it comes to coin price catalogs and guides – they misunderstand the intent of these publications and incorrectly apply the information to their own coin collection appraisals, with disastrous results when it comes time to sell!
Answer: The prices in coin [...]

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Coin Values: Market reacts to PCGS+

April 26, 2010

The rare coin market continues to adjust to the presence of new Professional Coin Grading Service Secure Plus coins and PCGS has posted on its Web site an FAQ with nearly 100 questions that its clients have asked about the new service.
So, if you don’t fully understand the new PCGS Secure Plus grading tier …
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Gold dominates Platinum

April 20, 2010

The upcoming Heritage Auction Galleries Platinum Night sale, to be held at the Central States Numismatic Society convention in Milwaukee on April 29, offers the next big test of the auction market.
The contents of the auction also seem to confirm what many have observed over the past several months: that sellers are simply not …
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Investing in Gold: The balance of the coin market

April 12, 2010

With the economy’s woes over the last few years, one thing that may or may not be surprising is that the demand for coins has remained strong. There have been some price corrections, but as a whole the prices of rare coins have done very well.
One of the biggest factors for coins doing well is [...]

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PCGS’s Secure Plus tier

April 12, 2010

Last week’s market analysis focused on the possible market impact of the new “plus” grade at Professional Coin Grading Service and Numismatic Guaranty Corp. This week we will focus on the second prong of the PCGS announcement of Secure Plus. Specifically, Secure Plus uses digital technology to capture a unique “fingerprint” of each coin, to [...]

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PCGS ‘Big one’ bang or bust?

April 5, 2010

Professional Coin Grading Services’ March 25 announcement of a new grade designation of a + sign that will “unlock value” for 15 to 20 percent of coins within 11 grades between Extremely Fine 45 and Mint State 68 will change the market, but how?
Numismatic Guaranty Corp. announced the same day that …
Full Article: ‘Big one’ [...]

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‘Odd’ coins soar in value at eBay

March 30, 2010

EBay continues to provide a vibrant market for rare coins. As reported in the April 5 Coin World, a 2004-D Wisconsin, Extra Leaf High quarter dollar graded Mint State 67 by Professional Coin Grading Service was sold on March 11 on eBay for $10,000.
It was to some a very surprising price, but it is undoubtedly [...]

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Finish the coin set and earn the reward

March 24, 2010

I was working on new price charts for the 2011 edition of North American Coins and Prices.
They were created 20 years ago for the first edition and now with almost 40 years of data reflected by the movement of the graphs, they tell an interesting story.
Coin collecting by no means is the royal road to [...]

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Boy Scouts Commemorative Dollar Pre-Sale Prices

March 24, 2010

With the release of the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollars only one day away (March 23, 2010), the United States Mint has started advertising their availability in mailed brochures, and the coins are already starting to appear in the secondary market on sites like eBay.
For the latter, auctions found on eBay are, [...]

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Coin grading changes ahead?

March 22, 2010

The basic model of rare coin grading for the two largest grading services, Professional Coin Grading Service and Numismatic Guaranty Corp., has remained the same since the firms were started in 1986 and 1987, respectively.
But some major changes are brewing that could soon change the way rare coins are graded. PCGS- and NGC-graded coins have [...]

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Off-quality coins a drag

March 15, 2010

The annual March Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo tests the market as it is the first major show for many dealers and East Coast collectors after the Florida United Numismatists show in January.
At this year’s March Whitman Baltimore expo, dealer consensus seems to be that off-quality coins are very hard to sell to retail [...]

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Value Compression: A New Trend in the Dated Gold Market

March 15, 2010

In the past few years, I’ve noticed an interesting trend in relation to the pricing of rare date gold coins. I refer to this as “value compression.” Let me explain what I mean.
When I mention this term I am referring to a small price premium between grades. The classic value-compressed issues have [...]

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Relative value key point – Coin Values

March 9, 2010

Recently a reader asked why common-date certified Mint State 65 Morgan dollars retail for around $150, when 1-ounce silver rounds retail for several dollars over the spot price of an ounce of silver. The answer is that a finite number of Morgan dollars is available, while availability of silver rounds is generally unlimited.
The increased interest [...]

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Price Differences for Brown, Red Brown and Red Coins

March 8, 2010

Collecting copper coins can be very challenging. Many of the Red copper coins are hard to find and to top it off, copper coin collectors are also some of the most aggressive collectors in today’s coin market.
One of the reasons that copper coin collectors are considered so aggressive is because they will step up and [...]

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American Eagle values swing

March 1, 2010

Unlike the market for classic United States coins, where the market is becoming increasingly picky about quality, the market for modern coins still in their government packages is more about supply and demand than connoisseurship.
The past several months have seen wild fluctuations in the prices of Proof American Eagle gold coins and to a lesser [...]

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