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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3067255, member: 68&quot;]And this is where the publishers have long done a disservice to moderns; they don&#039;t list the relative scarcity of nice attractive well made issues accurately.&nbsp; Instead they use arbitrary and flexible &quot;standards&quot; with no regard to strike or die condition.&nbsp;&nbsp; They have rare or non-existent Gems listed for a few dollars and common Gems listed at the same price.&nbsp; The markets have to operate without the proper guidance of price guides as exist in most other coin markets.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why you&#039;re seeing this activity on eBay.&nbsp; Often neither the seller nor the buyer has knowledge of the scarcity of the coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>So every year that goes by these suppressed markets allow more and more coins to get chewed up in circulation and more and more mint sets to corrode.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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