NGC Coin Price Guide & Coin Explorer Scraper

Scrapes the full NGC Coin price guide — US and World coins — and returns one record per coin-grade-designation combination. Covers every NGC-rated series, every active designation (BN, RB, RD, CAM, DCAM, PL, and others), and every grade from PO-1 through MS/PF-70 (Base and Plus where applicable).

The price guide at ngccoin.com uses Angular virtual scrolling, which means most of the price table is deliberately hidden from standard scrapers. This actor returns every grade for every coin, not whatever happens to be visible in the viewport.

What You Get

Each output record represents one coin at one grade and one designation. A 1909 VDB Lincoln Cent graded MS-65 BN is one record. The same coin graded MS-65 RD is a second record. This structure makes it straightforward to analyze price spreads across grades or designations without reshaping the data yourself.

Fields returned per record:

Field	Type	Description
coin_id	string	NGC internal coin ID — stable across runs, use as a join key
source_url	string	URL of the price guide series page
region	string	united-states or world
country	string	Issuing country/authority (world coins) — present-day country, or a historical/colonial issuer; United States for US coins
series	string	Series name, e.g. Lincoln Cents Wheat Reverse (1909-1958)
series_id	integer	NGC's numeric series ID from the live catalogue — matches the series_ids input. US only; empty for World (no per-series catalogue there)
period	string	Period or category label
denomination	string	Face value denomination, e.g. 1C, 50C, $20
description	string	NGC's own short coin label, e.g. 1886 1C PF. US only; empty for World
year	integer	Issue year
mint_mark	string	Mint mark (D, S, O, CC); null for Philadelphia
variety	string	VAM, die variety, overdate, or other designation
designer	string	Obverse / reverse designer(s)
composition	string	Metal composition, e.g. Silver, Bronze, Gold
diameter_mm	number	Diameter in millimetres
weight_g	number	Weight in grams
mintage	integer	Total mintage (may be combined across mints)
ngc_number	string	NGC UniversalCoinTypeID, e.g. 22B2
grade	string	Grade label as displayed, e.g. MS-65, PF-65, VG
grade_numeric	number	Numeric grade on the Sheldon scale (Plus grades add 0.5)
designation	string	Strike or surface designation: BN, RB, RD, CAM, DCAM, PL, etc.
price_usd	number	NGC guide price in USD
price_as_of	string	Date of last price update, e.g. 05/19/2026
image_url	string	Obverse image URL from NGC CDN

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	0 (no limit)	Maximum coin-grade records to return. Set to a small number for test runs.
region	string	united-states	Filter by region: united-states, world, or leave blank for US.
series_ids	array	[]	US only. Optional list of NGC series IDs (as strings) to limit the run. Leave empty to crawl all series.
countries	array	[]	World only. Optional list of NGC issuing-authority names (present-day countries plus historical/colonial issuers) to limit the run. Leave empty to crawl all.

Full runs covering all US and World coverage return a very large number of records. Use series_ids/countries or maxItems to narrow scope for targeted pulls.

How It Works

US (region: "united-states") — three stages.

Stage 1 discovers the live series catalogue directly from NGC's own price-guide category pages, so it always reflects series NGC currently serves rather than a stale index of URLs that may have been retired.

Stage 2 fetches each series page (concurrent). An info table above the price table carries every coin's internal ID for the whole series, regardless of scroll position — this gives a complete coin ID list without rendering JavaScript.

Stage 3 calls NGC's public coin-data APIs per coin (concurrent) for grade prices and coin metadata (year, mint, composition, designer, image).

World (region: "world") — NGC's World coverage is served through a live search rather than static series pages, so this actor drives that search directly: discover the live list of issuing entities, walk each requested entity's full catalog, and pull the grade-price table for every catalog entry. NGC's own picker lists ~530 entries total — only around 195-200 of those are present-day sovereign countries; the rest are current dependent territories (e.g. Bermuda, Gibraltar), historical/colonial issuers (e.g. Czechoslovakia, British Guiana), NGC's own sub-national and thematic groupings (e.g. German States, Central American States), a few Native American tribal nations, and a set of self-declared micronations/novelty issuers (e.g. Sealand, Westeros) that NGC catalogs as a collecting curiosity, not real countries. Some rare, auction-only catalog entries genuinely carry no standard grade prices — that is an honest empty for that specific entry, not a defect, and does not affect the rest of the run.

Notes

A small number of NGC catalog entries — mostly retired or reorganized series/tokens — are skipped with a warning and do not affect standard price guide coverage.

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Scraper built with the OrbTop actor framework. Data sourced from NGC Coin Price Guide.