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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1520363, member: 112"]How would they ? How could they ? Nobody has any idea how many coins, and what coins, are melted every day because nobody keeps track of them. And they don't keep track of them because they don't care. So without that information how could you possibly adjust anything ?</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are really asking about is the census of coins - how many of any given coin actually exists. Well, nobody knows for sure. But they do estimate, and that is what the rarity scales are for. Of course some coins, especially the more modern ones, cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy. Others, especially older coins, can be estimated to numbers that most people feel are pretty close to realistic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you're going to ask me where you can find these estimation numbers. You can find them in the specialty books most of the time - books written about a specific series. But sometimes you can even find them in auction records.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1520363, member: 112"]How would they ? How could they ? Nobody has any idea how many coins, and what coins, are melted every day because nobody keeps track of them. And they don't keep track of them because they don't care. So without that information how could you possibly adjust anything ? What you are really asking about is the census of coins - how many of any given coin actually exists. Well, nobody knows for sure. But they do estimate, and that is what the rarity scales are for. Of course some coins, especially the more modern ones, cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy. Others, especially older coins, can be estimated to numbers that most people feel are pretty close to realistic. Now you're going to ask me where you can find these estimation numbers. You can find them in the specialty books most of the time - books written about a specific series. But sometimes you can even find them in auction records.[/QUOTE]
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