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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2466624, member: 78153&quot;]To which coins does your opinion apply?&nbsp; In what price range?</p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest problem I have with the PCGS estimates is that there is no sanity check applied to them.&nbsp; I have also heard that PCGS uses &quot;experts&quot; in the series for the estimates in Coin Facts but still don&#039;t see that many make any sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>As examples, in another topic on this forum, the &#039;21 and &#039;21-d Mercury dimes supposedly have 2000 and 3500 survivors.&nbsp; This is about the same or even less than the estimates for many early 19th and even late 18th century US issues.&nbsp; It&#039;s also potentially about the same or less than the estimates for some of the dates in the pillar 1/2 and one real from Mexico, Peru and maybe Bolivia struck from 1732-1772.&nbsp; Does any one really believe that?</p><p><br /></p><p>Other inconsistencies I noticed are between draped bust/large eagle and capped bust halves and the 1894 IHC in &quot;UNC&quot;.&nbsp; For the halves, most of these estimates are for Red Book varieties but not all.&nbsp; The 1807 DB supposedly has 3000 survivors while the 1835 CB 6000. If the 1807 is ballpark accurate, I&#039;d say the 1835 has at least 50,000, as this would represent a survival rate of about 1% for both.&nbsp; Most likely, the survival rate is much higher on the 1835. </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1894 IHC supposedly has 150 MS-60+ and only 5000 in all grades, even though it&#039;s part of one of the most popular series, it isn&#039;t a key date (that I have ever heard) and it&#039;s price is not that high.&nbsp; If those numbers were remotely accurate, its price would be much higher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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