RecordScoutGet the app

Elvis' Golden Records vinyl value

Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Elvis Presley — Elvis' Golden Records: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1983 RCANL81707EuropeCompilation, Reissue
1984 RCANL81707GermanyCompilation, Reissue
1984 RCA VictorAFM1-5196USCompilation, Reissue, Remastered
1989 RCANL81707EuropeCompilation, Reissue
1997 Simply VinylSVLP 231UKCompilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
1997 RCA07863 67462 10USCompilation, Reissue
2007 RCA88697159741EuropeCompilation, Reissue, 180g
2013 Friday MusicFRM-1707USCompilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
2015 DOLDOS623HEuropeCompilation, Reissue, 180 gram
2015 RumbleRUM2011106UK & EuropeCompilation, 150g, Mono
2016 Speakers Corner4260019715166EuropeCompilation, Reissue, Mono
2016 Vinyl Lovers6785425EuropeCompilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
2016 Speakers Corner4260019715166EuropeCompilation, Reissue, Test Pressing
2017 Friday MusicFRM-1707USCompilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
2018 Wax LoveWLV82085EuropeCompilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
2020 RCA Victor19349-71440-1USCompilation, Reissue, Mono

19 pressings tracked, 16 shown · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 1983First released 1958; our table starts at 1983 (RCA, Europe). A copy older than 1983 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants1997 UK: Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue; 2015 UK & Europe: Compilation, 150g, Mono; 2016 Europe: Compilation, Reissue, Mono. Short runs like these often bring more than a standard early copy.
Reissues, 1997+3 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 1983 Europe pressing it reads “E-0112 A-2/83 S III Made In Germany” on side one and “E-0112 B-3/83 S III II Made In Germany” on side two. Jackets get swapped over the decades; the runout does not.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. The same pressing can be worth several times more in near mint than in VG. Grade the vinyl and the sleeve separately — our grading guide shows the standard scale.

A 1958 jacket with a later disc inside is a reissue in an original sleeve. Judge the pressing by the runout etching and the label, never by the cover.

Questions

Which pressing of Elvis' Golden Records is worth the most?

Original 1958 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 1983 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 1997 “Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue” and the 2015 “Compilation, 150g, Mono”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 1983 Europe pressing the runout reads “E-0112 A-2/83 S III Made In Germany”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is Elvis' Golden Records worth today?

Market prices move, so a static number goes stale fast. Scan the record in the RecordScout app: it identifies your exact pressing from the label and shows a current value range for its condition.

Not sure which pressing you have? Photograph the label and RecordScout names it, then shows a current value range for its condition.

Open in the App StoreFree to try, iPhone, no account.
More from Elvis Presley