Rare Coin Arbitrage

A price gap between two coin markets can vanish when the coins, bids, fees, and timing are examined closely. Rare Coin Arbitrage gives you a disciplined way to test a proposed cross-venue trade.

Match the exact specimen, separate an asking price from an executable buyer bid, calculate both sides of the cash flow, and plan payment, inspection, shipment, and settlement. Four fictional case files reveal why some attractive spreads deserve a pass.

The transaction checklist helps you record the outcome even when the coin stays in your inventory.

• Match the exact specimen and distinguish a posted asking price from an executable bid.
• Count acquisition, shipment, inspection, settlement, and resale costs on both sides of a proposed trade.
• Study four fictional case files where apparently attractive spreads change under closer inspection.

A profitable looking gap is only a starting question; this book shows how to answer it.

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The revised edition covers these chapters and reader resources:

• Chapter 1 — A Price Gap Is a Hypothesis
• Chapter 2 — The Same Coin on Both Sides
• Chapter 3 — Which Price Can You Use?
• Chapter 4 — The Two-Leg Cash Test
• Chapter 5 — Build a Watchlist, Not a Forecast
• Chapter 6 — Before Money Moves
• Chapter 7 — The Order of the Orders
• Chapter 8 — Four Candidates, One Ledger
• Chapter 9 — When the Coin Stays
• Chapter 10 — Review the Method, Not the Myth