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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 3493393, member: 13650"]That was a great post Doug. I didn't even know the websites allowed you to go back in time to study population numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p> One could argue that it may have taken some time for the TPGs to catch on. I mean, it probably took till the early to mid 2000s for most homes to even have internet. Much more information began being exchanged after the internet became common place in households so maybe it could account for a surge of submissions in the 2000s. I'd probably argue more than re-submits. Regardless, can't argue that there's surely many re-submits in their population numbers. For high value examples they may be re-submitted many, many times.</p><p><br /></p><p> For the $1k or less examples, I'd think unless it came under new ownership, it wouldn't be cost effective to submit them too many times without the failures cutting into the profit to where it wasn't worth the hassle. IME and others, it seems they are pretty consistent on re-grades. While were speculating you could speculate the lower end ones are probably closer to their actual populations than the ones near the large price jump grades. And you can probably assume that most of the ones that are at a major price jump level, if it levels out some, are probably close to actual numbers as it gets more difficult to achieve a higher grade. This coin has so many price jumps, my theory doesn't work well for it. XF to AU50 is a major price jump but theres only like 400 pop in xf and 200 some in AU50.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 3493393, member: 13650"]That was a great post Doug. I didn't even know the websites allowed you to go back in time to study population numbers. One could argue that it may have taken some time for the TPGs to catch on. I mean, it probably took till the early to mid 2000s for most homes to even have internet. Much more information began being exchanged after the internet became common place in households so maybe it could account for a surge of submissions in the 2000s. I'd probably argue more than re-submits. Regardless, can't argue that there's surely many re-submits in their population numbers. For high value examples they may be re-submitted many, many times. For the $1k or less examples, I'd think unless it came under new ownership, it wouldn't be cost effective to submit them too many times without the failures cutting into the profit to where it wasn't worth the hassle. IME and others, it seems they are pretty consistent on re-grades. While were speculating you could speculate the lower end ones are probably closer to their actual populations than the ones near the large price jump grades. And you can probably assume that most of the ones that are at a major price jump level, if it levels out some, are probably close to actual numbers as it gets more difficult to achieve a higher grade. This coin has so many price jumps, my theory doesn't work well for it. XF to AU50 is a major price jump but theres only like 400 pop in xf and 200 some in AU50.[/QUOTE]
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