How much is xxxxxxx worth?
This is the question I refuse to answer. The fact is that it can not be answered with any degree of accuracy. The market for coins depends entirely on supply and demand as well as more ‘luck’ than anything else. To sell a coin, you have to find someone who wants that coin in that condition at that time. This is not always easy. Condition is everything in coin collecting. The same type coin that sells for $100 in Extremely Fine condition is virtually worthless as a rough and featureless Good. Rarity means rather little and a coin that is one of three in existence is not easily salable unless there are more than three collectors that want it. …..and their Values type books give price numbers but these are more deceptive than helpful due to the fact that every coin is an individual with countless factors that can never be pigeonholed into a few grades as used for modern coins. To appraise a coin (let alone a collection) it is absolutely necessary to see the coin and GUESS where it will
