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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3524518, member: 19463"]In recent years there seems to have been a trend for new collectors being too good to buy common coins. They start by spending big money on things other people have told them are rare and worthy rather than things they themselves find interesting. I guess this is the same concept that brings us a US type set with a 1909S VDB as the representative Lincoln cent. It would be very interesting if all coins came with an accurate census report but that will never be. It would be more interesting to see indication of how many people are aware of and looking for any given type. At least that number would bear some significance to price. Remember the old tale about the 'third known' coin that failed to sell because there were only two collectors who cared and they owned the other two. Today the question is how many Athenian tetradrachms were in the recent find and whether there will be that many collectors that want one in the next century. We all have to wonder how many Tribute Pennies, Widow's Mites etc. exist but those are numbers that will never be known, too. I strongly recommend we all buy the coins we like when they present themselves at a price we can accept. No one will have a complete set of these things so there should be no pressure to own the ones we find boring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3524518, member: 19463"]In recent years there seems to have been a trend for new collectors being too good to buy common coins. They start by spending big money on things other people have told them are rare and worthy rather than things they themselves find interesting. I guess this is the same concept that brings us a US type set with a 1909S VDB as the representative Lincoln cent. It would be very interesting if all coins came with an accurate census report but that will never be. It would be more interesting to see indication of how many people are aware of and looking for any given type. At least that number would bear some significance to price. Remember the old tale about the 'third known' coin that failed to sell because there were only two collectors who cared and they owned the other two. Today the question is how many Athenian tetradrachms were in the recent find and whether there will be that many collectors that want one in the next century. We all have to wonder how many Tribute Pennies, Widow's Mites etc. exist but those are numbers that will never be known, too. I strongly recommend we all buy the coins we like when they present themselves at a price we can accept. No one will have a complete set of these things so there should be no pressure to own the ones we find boring.[/QUOTE]
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