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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2358959, member: 1892&quot;]I use the Heritage archives to develop relative scarcity ideas about the percentage of PL/DMPL&#039;s for a given year. Their archive is large enough to be an appropriate sample size. The exact number isn&#039;t accurate, in the sense that you&#039;d expect disproportionate representation because PL/DMPL&#039;s are &quot;Heritage&quot; kind of coins, but for comparative purposes it&#039;s a nice resource. The more common types reach or exceed 10+% (combined PL/DMPL) of the total offered for that year/mint, and the scarcer ones are down around 5-6%.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are just over 280,000 Morgans in the archive. 14,842 are noted as PL (5.3%) and 10,445 as DMPL (3.7%). For 1885-O, just about exactly 6% (306) of the 5k+ noted are PL, and 299 DMPL. That makes 1885-O one of the more common PL/DMPL issues, and the near-equality of PL&#039;s and DMPL&#039;s indicates it a pretty easy issue for DMPL. That year&#039;s Philly issues actually see DMPL&#039;s significantly outnumbering PL&#039;s, and fully 19% of the total offered has one designation or the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>Contrast that with - for instance - 1879-P, whose PL/DMPL percentage combined is just 7.7% of the total offered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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