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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2018060, member: 71234&quot;]Does that &#039;population&#039; figure refer to the number of items the graders have seen?</p><p><br /></p><p>An obvious explanation for low population figures on modern coins is simply that no one but an idiot would bother to pay for grading what is essentially a brand new&nbsp; bullion coin that already has a plastic box.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will also get very low population figures for any coins not generally collected in the US as nowhere else in the world&nbsp; would collectors find the idea of &#039;third party grading&#039; anything but a puzzling waste of money and time. The coins themselves might be as common as cowpats, what the population figure is measuring is the fools to coins ratio for that issue, since most non US people owning them would be more than happy to have their coins naked.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Canadian Mint, they probably can&#039;t be bothered with experting stuff to anywhere, not just the USA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much like the majority of US ebay sellers, but the other way round.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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