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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 776596, member: 39&quot;]On one hand it would indeed be interesting to know how many coins of a certain denomination or type are actually &quot;left&quot;. But as others have already written here, that will be impossible to do. Even if we had such info, we would not really know whether the pieces that have survived are high-grade or ho-hum. In general, a collector who aims at being &quot;complete&quot; in whatever he collects will know after a while how hard and how expensive it is to get the missing pieces. Would precise population figures influence that price? I doubt it.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, in most countries of the world, &quot;old&quot; coins are at some point withdrawn. And of course the government then knows how many coins, in total at least, were returned. Such figures may well be publicly available. Here in Germany for example we know that DM coins (the pre-euro money) worth about €3.5bn have not been exchanged so far. That is about 45 percent of what was in circulation ten years ago. But how many of these coins are in collections or with dealers, and how many are &quot;gone&quot; in drawers ... or sewers? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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