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|  1952 Topps High Number survival numbers 
			
			Hello, I was wondering if my fellow board members had a rough of idea of how many copies of each card in the 1952 Topps High Numbers still exist.  I have read the story of the back stock being dumped in the hudson, so I have always wondered just how many may still exist of each player in the series.  Thanks for the help Tony Turner | 
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			My best guess would be tens of thousands of each card.
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			There are 18275 high #'s that have been graded by PSA (yes I actually added them up).  What percentage of all the cards out there actually get graded?  If we guess 2%, then there are 913,750 high #'s available.  Since the high numbers are from #311 to #407 that's 97 cards.  So that is 9420 cards for each high number.  That's just doing the math, but how close that is to reality, no one knows.  I would say this guess is still way too low.  There are still a lot of undiscovered collections out there that would add to the number available .
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			I have no idea, but the math for 311-313 could factor in the DPs. I am not a graded collector, does anyone know how  the 913,750 compares to the number of graded cards in the other series from 1952 ?
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			There are 144,852 total 1952 Topps cards graded by PSA.  So just subtract the high numbers and you have your answer. 144852-18275 = 126,577 other series graded by PSA.  So if we figure that's 2% of the total population of low numbers, we get 6,328,850.  Is that close to reality?  Who knows.
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			That's good enough for my purposes    Last edited by ALR-bishop; 06-04-2011 at 07:48 AM. | 
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