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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1941377, member: 19463&quot;]I believe this is a factor of a fact in the hobby.&nbsp; We have beginners who do not want beginners&#039; coins but come into the hobby with a lot of money and no idea what to do with it to become an instant factor in the hobby without really understanding what it was they were buying.&nbsp; 200+ years ago, when this was the &quot;Hobby of Kings&quot;, the major players employed numismatists who helped with the collection.&nbsp; They did the dirty work of contacting the dealers and organized the collection.&nbsp; In some cases, these collections have been kept together in places like Denmark (from which we get SNG Copenhagen).&nbsp; In many cases a full collection would be sold intact to a higher level collector when the staff numismatist would have a few years work ahead of him.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have maintained that beginners should cut their teeth on beginners&#039; coins but most of you have bought coins far above anything in my collection.&nbsp; I wish I could get a high paying job playing with the magnificent X6 or TIF collections but, unfortunately, their highnesses seem to have enough free time to do their own grunt work.&nbsp; It must not have been so when kings actually had to run their country between weekly appointments with the staff to show what had recently been done to improve the glorious holdings. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know a dealer who I would most certainly trust with a spare million dollars (if I were to have an extra one) given no more guidance that to buy some things he is certain I would like and that would make my collection something that all the dealers would beg to sell when I was finished.&nbsp; For very little extra, he would even write down why it was that I should be happy with each coin.&nbsp; He would not cheat me knowing full well that I would be likely to do it again next year and the next.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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