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Coin Market Update
(11/14/09)
Overview:
For the previous 5 years, virtually all parts of the coin market moved higher together. This year, different segments of the coin market have performed quite differently. For example:
-Generic Gold – Already up close to 25% this year...(Read More)
Predicted Price of Gold for September 2009
For anyone that buys and sells gold on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of gold for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of past price history and using this information to determine the price of gold. (
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Predicted Price of Silver for February 2010
For anyone that buys and sells silver on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of silver for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of past price history and use this information to determine the price of silver for the current year.. (
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American Silver Eagle NGC MS69 eBay Auction Prices Realized
No current Coin Price Guides list prices for the high grade certified American Silver Eagle Bullion coins. These coins are popular and are bought and sold continuously. This price guide lits the prices (12/2009) for NGC graded MS69 American Silver Eagle coins.
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Previous Coin Collecting and Investment Articles
Predicted Price of Silver for September 2009
If you buy and sell silver on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of silver. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of price history and use this information to determine the price of silver for the current year.
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Glossary of Coin Grading Terms and Abbreviations
By Doug West, Ph.D.
In the world of collecting coins there are a wide variety of terms and abbreviations used to represent the grade or condition of a coin. Some are very helpful and others nearly meaningless. This guide presents some of the more commonly used useful terms and explain them. (Read More)
Coin Market Update -
(8/10/09)
Summer is usually a quieter time in the coin market, and the summer of 2009 has been no exception. Sales volumes for most dealers, as well as prices in general, have tended toward the soft side. The big winner for the last three months was generic gold: common pre-1933 US gold coins. Generic gold benefited from both increasing spot gold prices and ...(Read More)
Predicted Price of Gold for August 2009
One way to get an understanding of the monthly flucuations of gold prices is to look at several years of past price history and use this information to determine the price of gold for the current year. In this analysis, 25 years of price history for SPOT gold was reviewed to determine an approximate range for the price of gold in August 2009.
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Predicted Price of Silver for September 2009
If you buy and sell silver on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of silver for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at the Monthly Price Patterns for the Price of Silver). This analysis gives 25 years of price history ...
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Price Analysis of 1956 to 2007 US Proof Sets
The prices of US Proof sets can be analyzed to determine which set’s prices are high or low when compared to the group as a whole. The value of Proof sets is like other markets in that they are are always moving toward a price equilibrium. The problem is that the “price equilibrium” is also a moving target. There is new information,
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Predicted Price of Gold for July 2009
For anyone that buys and sells gold on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of gold for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of past price history and use this information to ...
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Predicted Price of Silver for July 2009
For anyone that buys and sells silver on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of silver for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of past price history and use this information to determine ...
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Coin Values in an
Economic Recession
Last summer we posted “Coin Values in an
Economic Recession” At the time this article was written we didn’t officially know a recession
had already begun. It wasn’t until December 2008 that it was announced that an economic recession has been
going on since December 2007. Experts tell us...
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Predicted Price of Gold for June 2009
For anyone that buys and sells gold on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of gold for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of past price history and use this information to determine the price of gold for the current year. In this analysis, 25 years of price history for SPOT gold was reviewed to determine an approximate range for the price of gold in June 2009. (Read More)
Predicted Price of Silver for June 2009
June 1, 2009
For anyone that buys and sells silver on a regular basis it is very useful to have an idea of the approximate range of the price of silver for a given month. One way to get this information is by looking at several years of past price history and use this information to determine the price of silver for the current year. In this analysis, 25 years of price history for SPOT silver was reviewed to determine an approximate range for the price of silver in June 2009. (Read More)
Every coin must be judged on its own merit, and the assistance of an experienced dealer is invaluable. Generally speaking, however, we prefer to deal in coins that exhibit the following characteristics: (Read More)
Coin Values in an Economic Recession
6 April 2009
You can’t hardly turn on the TV or open a newspaper without some mention of the economic recession. So what does this recession mean for the coin collector and dealer? Will the value of our collections take a big hit? Obviously, we won’t know the effects until a recession actually occurs. However, we can look at the last two recessions and see what happened to a typical group of coins. The two most recent recessions occurred from July 1990 to March 1991 and March 2001 to November 2001. (Read More)
Which Coin Price Guide is Right?
7 April 2009
There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of coin price guides available to the collector and dealer. About a dozen come to mind immediately. To try to make sense of some of the information available to value coins I did a comparison for seven coins that are commonly bought and sold by collectors. What I wanted to discover was how do the price guides compare to actual prices of coins being sold. With only seven coins this isn’t an all inclusive statistical comparison of actual prices and the price guides, however, from this limited sample of coins you can get an idea of how well the price guides reflect the current price of coins. (Read More)
Who Will I Sell My Coins To When I Retire from Collecting?
8 April 2009
A collector friend of mine asked me the other day “Who would he sell his collection to once he was ready to retire from collecting”. I gave him a less than profound answer to his question, however, that got me thinking. Like most collectors and dealers it is easy to get a large sum of money tied up in your collection or inventory. So just who will we finally sell our coins to when we stop collecting? (Read More)
Monthly Price Patterns for the Price of Silver
The monthly price movement of silver is not a completely random event. Some months have a much higher probability the price will increase when compared to other months. It is also true that in some monthly the price of silver is much more likely to decrease than increase. To those involved in buying and selling silver this information could be very helpful. The purpose of this short analysis is to understand the average price movement of silver. (Read More)
Predicted Price of Silver for April to June 2009
1 April 2009
Would you like to know what the price of silver will be in the near future? Who wouldn’t? Since we can’t see into the future, the next best thing is to look back at historical prices and see what useful information that can provide. The analysis presented in this guide uses the spot price of silver from 1984 until March 2009. From this historical information the future price of silver for the period April through June 2009 is estimated. Silver, like many other commodities, is subject to seasonal price patterns. Using the seasonal nature of the price of silver and 25 years of price history an expected range of prices for silver is predicted. (
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