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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 24624322, member: 73489&quot;]Excellent points as usual, GD, but it remains one of my pet peeves: <b>NOBODY at the top of the professional associations or organizations seems to be helping to formulate hard data points to go by.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Not the TPGs to let us know if the hidden ungraded coins out there -- SDBs, individual held, stored in an attic, etc. -- are in the tens of thousands or millions for a series like Saints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do we know how many Franklin collectors might be passing on and/or selling their collections from the 1950&#039;s or 1960&#039;s in the next 10-15 years ?&nbsp; Is it hundreds of registry-comparable sets...or thousands...or tens of thousands ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do we know if attendance at FUN, Long Beach, or ANA by both dealers and the public is up, down, or flat vs. pre-2020 conventions ?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Instead of guessing, we should have hard numbers or something approaching hard numbers. </b> I see well-respected dealers totally at odds on the percentage of gold coins that have been &quot;found&quot; with some saying it&#039;s 70% or higher and others saying it&#039;s 30% with decades of runway ahead of us.&nbsp; Collectors of cars, art, etc...all have hard numbers for their little niches.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not talking perfection, just ballpark numbers. <i>It&#039;s better than nothing, right ? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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