But what I said isn't "cherrypicked". The explosion of the grade populations applies to all coins across the board, not just 1 or 2 examples....
Well John it sounds like for your purposes the catalog type would serve your needs. But I think you would be best served by the Standard Catalog...
I've been writing about and preaching about a universal set of grading standards being adopted and strictly adhered to for almost 17 years now....
I would first ask you the question - what do you want the books for ? I mean, what's your reason, what do you hope to have the books do for you ?...
LOL ! No Kurt, but that's certainly a good way of putting it. Merely that somewhere down the road we'll all know how they decided to handle it.
Ehhh - you can get any "pedigree" you want listed on the slab, assuming you are willing to pay for it. It appears that's what was done here.
Time will tell, it always does.
I fixed that problem for you :)
Simple, because they won't be able to sell their coins in the over-graded slabs. Nobody will want them, they will only want coins in the new...
There have been other, much larger jumps in the pop numbers that occurred over similar time periods. But nobody noticed them because nobody but me...
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