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<p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1351717, member: 22004"]It will happen someday, I really miss the relationships I had to books. The internet gives us the resources for free, but someday a meteor storm could ground the satellites that make it work. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for documenting this, it would be a lot easier if you could download the PCGS, NGC and ANACS population reports and do a statistical analysis of the changes from year to year. I doubt there are any populations that go down unless the coins get lost or destroyed in a fire or other disaster, so all the populations are going up as coins come out of the woodwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>The CDN does graphs on most of the coin series--the only problem is that there are significant anomolies in the actual market pricing and what they present. If they were really on the ball they would download all verified industry information into the pricing on a weekly basis. They don't want to lose subscribers so they are hesitant to run a lot of negative pricing in keeping with current auction and transaction history. I'm not saying they need to run the negatives based on a few results, they undoubtably use up to date weighted averages and ignore problem coins in good holders, or run those on Bluesheet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1351717, member: 22004"]It will happen someday, I really miss the relationships I had to books. The internet gives us the resources for free, but someday a meteor storm could ground the satellites that make it work. As for documenting this, it would be a lot easier if you could download the PCGS, NGC and ANACS population reports and do a statistical analysis of the changes from year to year. I doubt there are any populations that go down unless the coins get lost or destroyed in a fire or other disaster, so all the populations are going up as coins come out of the woodwork. The CDN does graphs on most of the coin series--the only problem is that there are significant anomolies in the actual market pricing and what they present. If they were really on the ball they would download all verified industry information into the pricing on a weekly basis. They don't want to lose subscribers so they are hesitant to run a lot of negative pricing in keeping with current auction and transaction history. I'm not saying they need to run the negatives based on a few results, they undoubtably use up to date weighted averages and ignore problem coins in good holders, or run those on Bluesheet.[/QUOTE]
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