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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 2488782, member: 26030&quot;]Actually, it&#039;s not a &quot;looked at&quot; population, it&#039;s a final graded and slabbed pop.&nbsp; I agree that the TPG&#039;s are bad at accounting for crackouts and resubmits, however I wonder if with Secure Plus Fingerprinting of coins at PCGS, if that might improve over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>One last thing, your argument would be much more convincing if the PCGS Slabbed populations went more like 80 for RD, 60 for RB, and 40 for BN.&nbsp; In that case I could see where maybe all the RD&#039;s were cracked out and resubmitted and they were counted twice -- in that case the real pop would be more like 40 for RD.</p><p><br /></p><p>However with their advertised POP of over 800 slabs for MS65RD ... even if you say each and every red in that pop number was submitted twice (which is a hard sell to me given the cost of grading) ... that still makes a true count of 400 MS65RD&#039;s ... still leaps and bounds higher than the count of 24 slabs for MS65BN.&nbsp; (Plus who&#039;s to say that all the BN coins were not also cracked out and resubmitted (so that 24 pop of BN&#039;s might really be only 12).</p><p><br /></p><p>To me the PCGS slab population reports, signify there are multiples more RD&#039;s than BN&#039;s in higher MS grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>To further my point check out the slab populations at the MS66 grade. The pop is shown as 105 MS66RD&#039;s, 4 MS66RB&#039;s, and only 1 MS66BN.&nbsp; There is no way you are going to convince me that there are more BN&#039;s and RB&#039;s at the MS66 grade (than RD&#039;s) -- the difference is just too large.&nbsp; Even if you tried to sell me that each RD coin at MS66 was submitted 4 times (which is nuts) ... you still have a 25:1 ratio of RDs to BNs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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