New Section: Data Analysis

I added a new section to the website in the upper right hand column for the coin data and charts I generate.

That way if you want easy access to it, you don't have to scroll back through the blog looking for the specific price survey.

First coin series covered was PCGS Silver Ikes in registry type grades.

I will likely update Ikes in a month if you want to follow along.

Going to try and run a new coin series every week to generate material for the website and content for discussion.

What is this place anyway?

This is my personal website.

I am just a coin collector myself, probably like most anyone reading this.

I have sold some coins, but it isn't a job.  It could be at some point during retirement, but that is a ways off.

LCS stands for Local Coin Store.

With most of coins being purchased online and instead of in small LCS, you miss some of the discussion.  That is what this site is.

That and a tool for collectors.

Knowledge is key for collecting happiness and success.

Lots of great places out there that provide the basics and the advanced aspects of coin collecting and numismatics.  Not so much for the market data.

You see a lot of price guides.  I see a lot of potential BTU's as the only value there.

We will be talking about price or value quite a bit and I intend to have data to back it up when we do.  I'd even be willing to run a custom data search or two and share that data if asked and motivated properly.

Anything is fair game though.  Politics, lots of talk about politics in a coin store.  We are all lovers of liberty deep down so politics is a natural discussion.  Being my site we will be talking about things I enjoy talking about.  Sure coins are the big theme, but conversation tends to wander in the LCS when looking through a coffee can of junk silver looking for gems.

Conversation will wander here too.

You will probably here me talk about data and Python.  It will feed most of the actual news to this site in terms of reporting.  I love politics and liberty.  You could call me a libertarian type for sure.  Probably talk a bunch about President Andrew Jackson.  You will probably here some talk on Ohio sports, fitness, diet, and basically anything.

No limits to the conversation topic wise.

I will limit it to a family friendly type of discussion so no fears of clicking on the site while at work or with the parents looking over your shoulder.

Anyway enjoy and let me know if you have any useful links, resources, or tools for the site.  Even just coin shops.  I don't charge to list those coin dealers, I list them because either I have dealt with them or they have been recommended to me by someone I trust in numismatics.  I list them to help myself and readers like myself.  Don't take them as an endorsement and do your own due dilligence, but when these links were added, those dealers were all legit dealers that are an asset to the coin community at large.

Site Update: more data less comments

Just a heads up, but all comments are turned off.

I can read them if you leave one and if you have a question, I will likely answer it.

Heads up.

Better news, been teaching myself data analysis and visualization lately.  Basically grabbing data from the net, creating a database, and using that database to automatically graph out the data.  Programming in Python is fun and productive.

Did my first run this past weekend.

Was quite happy with the results.

I scraped all Eisenhower Silver Dollar slabbed PCGS coin sales.

Roughly 1500 transactions covering 3 months.

I only focused on the silver coins and only on PCGS registry grade types.

Here is a sample of the sales data.

In the graphs, each gold dot is one sale that took place during that month.  It takes 5 layers of overlapping gold dots to form a solid gold color.  That way you can see the concentration of the data points at a glance.

Anyway, there is the data for the 1973s Silver Ike Dollar in PCGS MS65 - 68.  Just a quick taste.  More tonight or tomorrow morning.

I will be rolling out that data here this next week and I will be sharing it on my coin home, Coin Community Forums as well as on Reddit.

I get banned from reddit roughly every weekend for my pro liberty views and anti banks printing money out of thin air views so you really can't follow me over there as I have to hit and run from fresh accounts.

Coin Community Family (CCF) is a great source for coin collectors and my discussion home.

I won't be having a discussion board or a subreddit on coins, there is no need, CCF has that function handled great and has a huge user base.

Anyway, that is what I have been up to.

Learning some Python and watching silver and gold perform well this summer.

Silver was up big again today and is back above $18.  Silver was just $13 like a minute ago so $18 is a nice move from that perspective.  For the buy and holders still holding from $20+ or even $30+ or $40+ silver, not so much.

Gold to Silver Ratio (GSR) has finally started swinging back to the silver side.  To those of you who swapped gold for silver as you should per GSR theory, congrats as you are sitting on some free ounces right now.  Me, I didn't.  I would only swap silver for gold.  Gold is something you die with, you never part with it.

That's All Folks