3. The Certified Coin Dealer Newsletter (CCDN) or Bluesheet
The Certified Coin Dealer Newsletter or commonly referred to as the Bluesheet was first published in 1986, the time when third party certified and graded collectable coins became available and popular in the market.
While most coin grading companies use the same standard or scale in assessing coins, individual companies used different terminologies and descriptions that correspond to the numerical grade they give to a coin. This caused misunderstandings and conflicts in coin pricing.
To help numismatists avoid the confusion, the CCDN or Bluesheet was born. Today, it features coins graded by Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS) and the Numismatic Guaranty Corp. (NGC) weekly.
Coins graded by ANACS, ICG and other third party coin graders are featured in the supplementary issue released monthly to Bluesheet subscribers.
4. Us Coin Digest
US Coin Digest is a coin value guide published by Krause Publications, a company publishing books, periodicals, and other references for different sorts of hobbyists including numismatists.
One of its key features is a coin price list for 11 grades. For example, if it features the price of a Morgan Dollar, its guide has a pricing for a Morgan dollar with a grade of Poor, Fair, VG, MS 60, and so on.
The US Coin digest provides a more thorough background about coins and numismatics in general through its articles.
5. Coin Values
Coin World’s Coin Values is a monthly coin magazine that provides retail prices of over 65,000 United States coins. It also features helpful articles and news stories to keep numismatists updated of the changes in the coin collecting hobby and industry.
Formerly known as Trends, Coin World’s Coin Values has columns like First Grade which teaches a collector on how to grade coins & What’s Hot-What’s Not Column which aims to give insights & analysis about the trends of the current coin market – the reasons for a decline in price of some famous coins, the effects of an unstable economy to the industry, etc.
Subscribers of Coin World & Coin Values are given free access to Coin Values Online which provides weekly comprehensive and updated current retail coin market price via the internet.
6. COINage Magazine
COINage is one of America’s famous coin magazines that feature articles and columns about collecting and making money from coins.
It is composed of different coin experts and numismatic authorities who willingly share their experiences in the coin collecting hobby and convey their views and opinion about the changing coin market.
7. PCGS Coin Price Guide
The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is one of the leading companies that offer coin grading and authentication services. It provides an online coin collecting price guide which only applies to numismatic items graded by PCGS.
PCGS Price Guide gives you a list of coins with details like coin category, coin description, the PCGS grade, and the current coin price. Being one of the top reputable coin graders, PCGS graded coins are usually priced higher than coins graded by other authenticators.
8. NumisMedia Price Guides
NumisMedia is the official price guide of the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) and the Collectors’ Society offering a collector coin pricing guide and a dealer coin price list separately. It is an online coin value catalog which is updated daily.
Numismedia also releases a monthly publication called fair market value price guide that contains 36 pages of coins with grades Very Fine (VF) to Mint State 68 (MS68). While an annual coin collecting catalog is issued every January for items with Good to MS70 coin grades.
