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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1553732, member: 37498&quot;]As many times as you want, just make sure your examples are comparing apples to apples.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sogdian coins, by nature, are a very poor example. What I mean by that is there are no year by year mintage numbers to show that two coins that are virtually identical except for mintage numbers are not fetching a different price.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great! Are these also ancients?</p><p><br /></p><p>What might be a good way to test your theory is to go out and buy 900 of these coins that had a mintage of 1k. Sure, the price would go up in the short term because of the increased demand that you put on the market, but once you stop buying them and allow the market to adjust, I bet it wouldn&#039;t return to it&#039;s original price point.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps you don&#039;t hear what I&#039;m saying, because comparing US coins with ancient coins is not comparing apples to apples.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is much closer to what I&#039;m saying, but still not exact because you&#039;re still not comparing apples to apples. You&#039;re comparing SL halves to other coins. How about comparing years with dramatically different mintage numbers within the same series. That would be a good indicator of how supply is affecting price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, demand is still one half of the equation, as is supply. Those that say it&#039;s &quot;ALL&quot; demand, or it&#039;s &quot;ALL&quot; supply, probably don&#039;t fully understand economics. I&#039;m not trying to say it&#039;s &quot;ALL&quot; supply. I did agree that by nature demand causes almost all of the fluctuations in price.&nbsp; What I am trying to say is that supply and demand work together just as they do in any market, to determine price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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