Hello Bern and List,
A Price Guide is exactly what it says, a guide. This does not set the "Value" at any particular price but it does give you a base to start out. Perhaps a better "Guide" would be a price guide for classsifications. Just to give a base price.
Other factors would come into play of course. For example, if El Hammami were to be listed at $5.00/g these factors would offset that price up or down. Factors such as rust, slice, fragment, endcut, uncut. You'd probably pay more for a nice looking polished slice than for a broken uncut fragment even if they were both at the same weight.
Coins and stamps offer a base price, but I have bought and sold well above and well below "book value"
I don't agree per say in setting an average price, but a base price. This is not to set a market, but it allows the market to have something to rise or fall from. If I found a meteorite tomorrow in a field and I said I wanted $60,000 for it and was firm, that would be the only way to aquire it. This is controlling a market, not involving yourself in it.
Cj
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