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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 6939239, member: 112&quot;]If you&#039;ve got the Akers book then you should already know what the Akers rarity scale is, and what each number means. To quote David Hall - “David Akers is considered one of the top rare gold experts of all-time,” - and he&#039;s far from the only one who thought and still thinks that.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The caveat in your question is &quot;up to date&quot;. To my knowledge there is nothing current. But we&#039;ve talked about this several times, the answers haven&#039;t changed. Between the two books on gold that I&#039;ve always recommended to you, the Akers book, and the files I think I&#039;ve sent you or at least offered to send you - that&#039;s about as good as it gets. Between all of them they pretty much pin down what Saints are common, scarce, and rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now some folks will say - but none of that&#039;s up to date. Well, OK - but so what ? I mean it&#039;s not like somebody made more of them, or found hoards of them hidden way since those books were published. In other words the census of how many coins of each date/mint exist is pretty accurate. Oh sure the grades have changed - dear god how they&#039;ve changed ! But the numbers of coins - and therefore the rarity rating - that hasn&#039;t changed. It&#039;s as good now as it was then. And if ya go through all the various rarity scales you&#039;ll find they pretty much jive with each other. Sure each one will use a different number, but the degree of scarcity/rarity doesn&#039;t change.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty much the same thing with Morgans. There&#039;s lots of book on them complete with rarity scales. And sometimes you might find some stuff online for Saints and Morgans but not much because it&#039;s all protected by copyright. So if ya want the info ya gotta buy the books.</p><p><br /></p><p>If all you really care about are the plastic numbers - today&#039;s TPG grades - use the pop numbers. But seeing as how much grading standards have changed over the last 16 years or so - that&#039;s pretty much worthless IMO. What used to be AU is MS today, what used to be 63s are 64s and 65s today. Same thing with all the other grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>And with Saints, examples of true MS Saints do exist but not in large numbers - and they never have. Not since they quit making them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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