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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2624004, member: 76863&quot;]There probably aren&#039;t as many as people think floating around after circulation and as you said people just not thinking twice about grading them, but your point is certainly valid that modern top pops should rise over time as that market strengthens more people will look for them.&nbsp; A few years ago slabbed Ikes were somewhat rare on eBay and things like a 73 P MS 65 brought good money so people searched and the population gained and the price came down.&nbsp; Also agree that is hardly an example of getting lose.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing he is completely ignoring is that overtime more and more people have gotten their coins slabbed.&nbsp; Newer collectors don&#039;t know what the preslabbing days were and as life has it the collectors from those days do pass on unfortunately which has changed the demograpihics and overall acceptance of slabbing.&nbsp; Auctions used to run raw coins now almost everything gets sent in, so of course populations were going to rise as collections hit the market and get graded for the first time.&nbsp; The days of selling a top notch album or top notch coins are essentially gone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is more going on with the populations than he wants people to believe.&nbsp; That also doesn&#039;t account for crackouts where people tried for a higher grade and got the same grade, or coins crossed back and forth looking for that + or extra point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I equate this a lot to the PM price charts.&nbsp; You can cherry pick numbers and present them in a way to make your point look good, but at the end of the day you are just presenting it in a way that best serves your own financial interests.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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