REALISTIC values

[RI AL]

Been messing around the last couple of days looking at different coin sites...just fun to do. I noticed an interesting feature in the Heritage Rare Coins site (HRCG.com) called " my collection". You can list your coins and it gives you a value based upon "Numismedia Wholesale" (I think). Heritage has my respect, and I even had the opportunity of working with them as a temporary " remote cataloger" until their new computerized system was up and running. This was about 6 or 7 years ago...great fun...good people.

 

Anyway, what do you think of "Numismedia Wholesale" as a reasonably accurate means of evaluating what a collection might bring at sale. Of course, there are a zillion variables in valuation of which we are all aware...but in GENERAL...are they somewhere near realistic?

 

RI AL

[JCM-Houston]

I've just recently gotten back in to collecting seriously, so my ideas of values may be a little whacky. I buy through 3 auction places and through couple of dealers, I find the prices listed in Numismedia Wholesale reasonably close to what I've actually paid including buyers fees and shipping. Sometimes I buy cheaper but not that often, sometimes I pay more, usually nowhere near the PCGS listed retail prices though.

[Just Bob]

I have my Roosevelt collection listed in "My Collection" - the majority of them were purchased at prices below "numismedia wholesale" - but, it does appear to me to be a fairly accurate guide to wholesale prices, (in most cases) based on what I have observed, at least for Roosevelts.

[RI AL]

JCM and JUST BOB.

 

Thanks for your input. I think I might just give it a try. Should be fun. The only problem is that when I depart the planet, I have to will my collection for sale so I will never get to see how close Numismedia values really are. BUT...I still plan to take the collection with me when I depart the planet.

 

Have a productive day, everyone.

 

RI Al