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It depends whether you are looking at RAW versus graded coins. If the coins are graded, then pricing is a lot easier. It seems that NGC and PCGS are the most consistent and stringent graders, so I would stick with them, if you are planning on adding to your collection. Otherwise, the primary trick is figuring out the exact grade of the coins you have. Personally, I have some older specimens that were handed down to me - what I try to do is buy a PCGS graded coin in a close range of what I own - then I can compare them in person. The trick for me is that when I am holding a Silver Trime in my hand, I don't get too excited about spending $450 on one, just to see how close they match. Grading is the trick. I did see a really, really nice book on grading that had a bunch of color photos and a good breadth on the range of grades, but I went back to the book store and it was gone. In fact, maybe I will go take another look this weekend. When I find it again, I am going to buy it, and I will try to post something here. There are a number of books like this, but most have few photos, or they are mostly in black and white - this one was all color, all the way through.

But for PCGS prices, I happen to have just finished creating a report that displays actual ebay sales for the past year's worth of data. I pull all PCGS and NGC sales each day, but am only categoirzing PCGS for now. To be honest, I figured there were like 1,000 US coins, but the last time I checked, I think i have like 6,000 or something ridiculous like that. Most material between 1850 and today I have in tidy order, so if you are interested in having a look, run over to ww.shoeboxcoins.com and look at the examples page for the "coin analysis" report. I have to admit - I have been working on this "side project" for well over a year (although I started in 2002 and have about a year's worth of sales from back then, too), but when I put the final touches on this report last weekend, I was surprised at how darn cool it really is. I will never bid or buy another coin again until I have reviewed one of these reports - that is for sure.