Next time you feel like bragging about that super rare or low mintage coin of yours, remember the 1909E German mark. It has such a low mintage that you have to be a theoretical mathematician to own one NGC really needs to do better with their site.
It's amazing that this hasn't been corrected yet. There is no way that they are not aware of such a glaring and potentially dangerous discrepancy.
Just wait for the classified ads offering the service of wearing them down to VG8. Classic case of too many data points to keep maintained.
I think they simply don't care or don't think it is worth it to change. I think they should do a better job, but I'm guessing it won't change unless there is some sort of financial impact to them.
EVERY pricing guide I've ever known occasionally has had such logical inconsistencies. It's par for the course. The key is whether anyone cares to correct it.
Yes, and I am unanimous in that. There were similar nonsense listings in NN's Coin Market that I pointed out to Dave Harper a couple of years ago. Too much data to manage and too few people to manage it. Kind of gives one pause, doesn't it? It's like the NSA - too much data to analyze so store everything and analyze in the past tense. We are creating more data than we have people to manage, curate, and edit it. Data overload.
The "data overload" theory makes sense. Even with the old printed catalogs, I remember when Krause launched Numismaster and started digitizing all this, (what, ten, twelve years ago?) lots of errors and omissions began creeping in. Suddenly whole denominations, or in a few cases, entire countries, disappeared from the catalogs. Or columns shifted or weird stuff like shown here started happening. I remember with nostslgia the time when it was just the 19th and 20th centuries listed in Krause, under one cover, in a giant "telephone book". The coverage and scope of the Krause catalogs has expanded vastly since , but with that, the accuracy of the information has decreased sharply. It would be nice if they provided any easy way for users like us to flag these errors.
Several years ago the Krause catalog made a more serious error: Andorra Brass 5 Cèntims 2002 Capercaillie or Gall Fer (A big European bird, weighing 7 kg or 14 lbs) Krause calls me a Male Turkey! Oh the Shame! The Shame! I am not a Turkey! I am a Free Bird!
Chet died and Cliff is mostly retired. Who to blame? Who to blame? How is that bird, all roasted up? 14 lbs.? Seems like a useful turkey substitute for a random late November meal. Jus’ sayin’.
F&W Publications. The really big errors (missing countries etc) started occurring right after they sold Krause Publications to F&W Publications. Krause is a small part of their holdings and they have never sent funding or expanded personnel at Krause. In fact it has gone the other way with staff constantly shrinking. I was talking with a dealer that provides pricing information on the German section and he tells me that the Krause Publications staff is now down to three people. That's five centuries of coin catalogs, hundreds or thousands of price listing , images, layouts, three world paper money catalogs also with thousands and thousands of prices, images layouts excetera, all done with a staff of three people. It's no wonder errors have run rampant. F&W needs to sell the books to Whitman, someone that will throw the money and time into fixing them and doing them right, before they become completely worthless.
Yes, that would be splendid. Poor, overworked Krause people. I had no idea the editorial staff of the SCWC was such a slender shoestring! Reminds me of the sobering statistics on state bridge inspectors I heard in a TV exposé about infrastructure. At the time it ran, many states had but a tiny handful of inspectors overseeing thousands of bridges, and Alabama was reportedly without any inspectors at all.
