The E-Sylum in These Trying Times
Dennis Forgue writes:

United States Mint (April 20, 2020)

Sotheby's (April 23, 2020)
From CNN:

To read the complete article, see:
Sotheby's sets new online auction record despite coronavirus gloom(https://www.cnn.com/style/article/sothebys-online-sales-record/index.html)

Fritz Rudolf Künker (April 24, 2020)

Analyzing Recent Auction Prices (April 26. 2020)

Analyzing Auction Prices Realized (APR's) for publicity purposes involves a certain amount of bias. Because it is impossible or undesirable to analyze every lot in aparticular sale, choices must be made as to which coins to analyze. For instance, numismatic publications may be biased toward the headline-generating "trophy" coins, recordprices, super-rarities, etc. Auction houses tend to present coins that showcase their success in getting the most money for their consignors. Specialists may focus on a particularseries where they possess expert knowledge. As a result, biased analyses may end up presenting differing accounts of the same auction.

How different would the analyses look if bias could be eliminated by choosing the coins at random? Of what benefit would that be? Currently, there is a fear that the coinmarket may be declining precipitously along with the stock market, businesses, and the overall economy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. To answer that fear, a biased analystcould pick and choose coins to show that the market has actually risen, thus giving comfort to anxious collectors and dealers. Alternatively, another biased analyst could pick andchoose coins from the same sale to show a completely opposite picture, thus stoking the fear even further. A random, bias-free sampling of coins should give a more realistic viewof the results of an auction.

To test this concept, the Numismatic Detective Agency (NDA) examined fifteen lots from Heritage Auctions' Central States sale conducted on April 23-24, 2020.

To read the complete article, see:
Random Sampling - A Different Approach to Numismatic APR's(https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/random-sampling-%E2%80%93-a-different-approach-to-apr%E2%80%99s)

Three Two-Corona Choices
Ron Haller-Williams writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CORONAVIRUS UPDATES: APRIL 19, 2020 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n16a11.html)