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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1409759, member: 26302&quot;]Doug is completely right that in the past people did original research to document number of items known based upon auction catalogs, sales listings, hoard reports, etc. They still do this in ancient and medieval coins. A fellow member of my coin club just had a paper published in this months Celator on persian sigloi, order of production, and how many type 1&#039;s are know. He went back 60 years into thousands of catalogs sales in his research.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find most US coin writers simply take the lazy approach today and just quote pop reports. Its sad, since pop reports are about the least reliable or informative judge of populations I can think of. I could name all of the things wrong with using them, but I think I would just bore most.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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