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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2476042, member: 26302&quot;]Based upon what? A guess? The 250,000 number what put together looking at mailing lists versus non-mailing list customers of large firms, numismatic subscriptions, coin show attendance, registered users for online coin sites, and tons of other REAL data. From that they extrapolated an overall number of people they considered collectors who purchase coins for a collection. Does it include bullion holders, people who keep &quot;unusual&quot; change, or those who inherited some old silver dollars from grandma? No, but one cannot expect those to be &quot;demand&quot; for future sales of rare coins, can they?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I do consider it unreasonable to pick a number out of the sky and assume that represents anything. Its the same innane argument that the PM people put forth, &quot;most people on earth cannot own an ounce of silver, there is not enough to go around&quot;. Most people on earth have ZERO interest in owning an ounce of silver, and even fewer care one with about a collectible coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>An &quot;estimate&quot; should be just that, a reasoned approximation with data to support it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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