Valuing Coins using Price Guides
A recent price guide is an easy and convenient way to quickly look up your coin and determine its value. Right?
Unfortunately it's not so simple. Read more . . .
How much is my pile of pre-1965 90% silver coins worth?
Are you like the millions of Americans that have old silver coins stashed away somewhere? My wife has old dimes, quarters, and half dollars taking up space in our safety deposit box. Nothing rare - just 90% silver. So what is it all worth?
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What you need to know before you buy or sell your coins via an auction!
While I'll admit that some people have profited handsomely from the rise in values of their rare coins in recent years, I believe the rare coin market favors the people that market, auction, and deal in rare coins. The average collector (and I am including investors when I use the term "collector") is at the mercy of these people.
Many collectors don't take into consideration all of the costs and fees that are going to take a bite out of the value of their collection. You must think of rare coin collecting as investing in a mutual fund with a very large front-end load, 12b-1 fees, and a very large back-end load. My purpose with this article is to look at some of these fees as they relate to building a rare coin collection and how you can minimize or even eliminate some of them.
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