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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2020010, member: 71234&quot;]Well, yes. That&#039;s about it. It&#039;s what anyone would have understood a coin to be since the dawn of coins. Anything else is non circulating legal tender or medallions. Paying a grading service to nitpick over the production standards of brand new material simply compounds the madness. People in general may not be well versed in the 17th C Dutch tuilp mania, but Beanie Babies are a more recent horrible example of people taking froth for substance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone should read &#039;Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds&#039; by Makay.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is of course, a given that the crowds, at the time, did not consider themselves in the least bit mad,and only in retrospect does it seem a wonder that so many were carried along with the enthusiasm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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