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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7764466, member: 110226&quot;]Given the ocean of owls out there, I imagine that there many more than the 3,000 graded MS by the certification firms.&nbsp; Think any attempt to corner the market, with tens of thousands of owls out there, with more found each year, would be akin to Nelson Bunker Hunt&#039;s attempt to corner the silver bullion market in 1980 - doomed to failure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people have done extremely well, thank you, in the stock market.&nbsp; Many have become overnight millionaires through IPO&#039;s and buyouts.&nbsp; A lot of CEOs have raked in handsome salaries and bonuses.&nbsp; This has been going on from many years, but it really accelerated over the past year or so.&nbsp; There are also relatively newly minted millionaires from China and other Asian countries.&nbsp; The fact is that people in this rarified stratum need to put their money into assets that have a good yield.&nbsp; Savings and treasury notes have a miniscule interest yield.&nbsp; So, money flows into real estate, art, antiques and, yes, coins, of all sorts.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, we get into a feedback loop, of sorts.&nbsp; Money floods into owls and other coins, ancient and modern.&nbsp; That drives up prices, which, in turn, causes more money to drive up prices even further.&nbsp; This is a classic case for a bubble, be it stocks, collectibles or coins.&nbsp; Nothing lasts forever, and eventually, what stock managers call a correction, or corrections, at the macro level will occur, usually caused by some external event.&nbsp; And then the cycle begins anew, but not necessarily immediately.&nbsp; Remember,&nbsp; the US really did not pull out of the Great Depression until World War II.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that is a very good model to follow now, given a world of countries armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and other means of mass destruction. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, on a far less serious note, here&#039;s an owl that is sort of like yours, but different.&nbsp; The weight is significantly lower, which, coupled with stylistic differences, does make it an imitation.</p><p><br /></p><p>14.57 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1331393[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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