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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 8474701, member: 73489"]Good questions....the immediate FEAR is that if you even have 1 or 2 coins in a key date where the existing population is single digits, you could crater the market price. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>But as these coins seem to be mostly AU or low-MS.....and most of the Top Pop coins are usually mid-60's or higher...they really don't compete. </b> Sort of like the 1857-S SSCA, these lower-graded (when they are graded <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) coins will probably EXPAND the buying unverse to folks who couldn't afford the coins before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doug Winter seems to say that a few coins, lower quality than the existing graded/ungraded population, can be absorbed by the market. The fear is a significant % of a key date, like 20-50% or something like that.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Dealers and the sellers may want to keep the quantities and specific coins a secret...but word leaks out.</b> And eventually, dealers and collectors who know that a coin that normally shows up 1 or 2 times a year is suddenly showing up 5 or 6 or 7 times a year.....they notice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 8474701, member: 73489"]Good questions....the immediate FEAR is that if you even have 1 or 2 coins in a key date where the existing population is single digits, you could crater the market price. [B]But as these coins seem to be mostly AU or low-MS.....and most of the Top Pop coins are usually mid-60's or higher...they really don't compete. [/B] Sort of like the 1857-S SSCA, these lower-graded (when they are graded :D) coins will probably EXPAND the buying unverse to folks who couldn't afford the coins before. Doug Winter seems to say that a few coins, lower quality than the existing graded/ungraded population, can be absorbed by the market. The fear is a significant % of a key date, like 20-50% or something like that. [B]Dealers and the sellers may want to keep the quantities and specific coins a secret...but word leaks out.[/B] And eventually, dealers and collectors who know that a coin that normally shows up 1 or 2 times a year is suddenly showing up 5 or 6 or 7 times a year.....they notice.[/QUOTE]
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