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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 3175376, member: 36230&quot;]That&#039;s not important, but the greater point was that we needn&#039;t be in such a rush to cheapen so many terms by expanding them to include pretty much anything and everything. Think of how the term &quot;hero&quot; used to be reserved for truly heroic individuals yet today is applied to almost anyone for anything. Audie Murphy was a hero yet so is anyone simply claiming to have served in the military even though their actions certainly cannot be compared.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, think of how &quot;rare&quot; once meant at least something when it came to coins. It was generally reserved (at least by the knowledgeable) for those truly scarce examples displaying one characteristic or another, but most often as a type/date/mint that was special due simply to scarcity.</p><p><br /></p><p>To try to bring this home and into the context of your assertion, if any type of anomaly can or should be considered the equivalent of a &quot;hobo&quot; coin, what to call the pieces created by genuinely talented artists? We can certainly agree to disagree, but it is my opinion that the connection is both invalid and cheapens the real deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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