Tips for Utilizing the PCGS Population Report

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What will PCGS Pop Reports tell you? Quite a lot… You can find out relative rarity of scarce and rare U.S. coinage as well as relative grade rarity of certain issues within a specific series. Another perspective that PCGS Population Reports provides is information on scarcity and value versus that of another issue in the same series – a great tool for understanding what makes a key date a key date. You can even use PCGS Population Reports to ascertain bell-curve figures when gauging price discrepancies within a particular date.

The article linked below looks at a couple of highly traded U.S. Morgan Dollar dates to illustrate some of the valuable information you can access with the PCGS Population Report, with the 1881-S and 1891-CC issues as our examples.

Read more: https://www.pcgs.com/news/tips-for-utilizing-the-pcgs-population-report

WCC

Agree it's a great tool but the DB for many world coins needs to be reorganized to make it more useful. Some such as Mexico and South Africa are well organized. Others aren't.

jt88

I check Population Report a lot. Great tool.

johnny9434

I checked out this this morning , I like it and easy use

Tom147

I frequently use it, but when dealing with coins close to top pop I'm a little suspect. How many have been cracked out and resubmitted ? Inflates the numbers.

Walkerfan

@Tom147 said:
I frequently use it, but when dealing with coins close to top pop I'm a little suspect. How many have been cracked out and resubmitted ? Inflates the numbers.

This is true across all series, dates and grades. But, It is still a good, accurate, relative indicator just as long as you don’t rely on them as absolute numbers.

Jacques_Loungecoque

I use the pop report constantly. Newer collectors should be forewarned that pops could indicate the same coin having been cracked and resubmitted, even several times over. If something has a pop of ten, hypothetically there could only be 3, 4, 5 in actuality. (Just an example). Those 3, 4, or 5, or a portion of them might have been regraded multiple times.

Take the numbers with a grain of salt.

krueger

Do people still turn in crackout labels?
I do.

Jacques_Loungecoque

@krueger said:
Do people still turn in crackout labels?
I do.

The realist (read: pessimist) in me says: unlikely.

MFeld

@krueger said:
Do people still turn in crackout labels?
I do.

They do when motivated to do so. As an example, most will if they own a very low pop coin, especially if they’re about to offer or currently offering it for sale. On the other hand, if it’s a common coin with a large population, most people won’t care.