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New Member
United States
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I was looking at the PCGS set registry, and noticed the two different population categories. Population and population higher. What's the difference?  *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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in your example, ms64 there are 88,052 of them, and in higher grades ms 65, ms66, ms67 etc.. there are 21,782
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Bedrock of the Community
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Higher means the ones graded higher than your grade. It's almost always inflated and just a ballpark
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm with Silverwolf -- it's a count of coins in grades higher than this one, but it includes only those graded by PCGS. It's an accurate count lifted from their own statistics. Note, though, that it does not include ungraded coins or coins graded only by other TPGs, and it does not consider that some coins are cracked and resubmitted hoping for a higher grade.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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resubmits throw the numbers off.
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New Member
 United States
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Wouldn't it be in a collector's best interest to mail in the card from the slab with their resubmits, and help keep the population lower and more accurate?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If the coin gets a higher grade, it's "better" (note the quotes) to keep the lower population artificially inflated so the higher grade looks better by comparison. And if the earlier card is present on a resubmission, that grade could influence the grader, making a higher evaluation less likely.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It's an accurate count lifted from their own statistics. It is accurate as to how many they have graded, but it is not accurate as to that being that many individual coins. Some may be resubmissions and some of them are no longer in those holders. So it doesn't mean that there are actually that many still in existence. |
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Australia
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Is it accurate to how many they have graded? What about coins that they have graded but then canceled the certification? Even though the cert number shows as invalid it is still a coin that they have graded.
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United States
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It is accurate as to how many they have graded, but it is not accurate as to that being that many individual coins. Some may be resubmissions and some of them are no longer in those holders. So it doesn't mean that there are actually that many still in existence. That's what the last part of my earlier post means. If you look at their population report for each grade, "population higher" is the sum of the populations of all of the higher grades. That's what I meant by "It's an accurate count lifted from their own statistics." They can't know what happens to the coins after they slab them. |
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