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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1020719, member: 57463&quot;]There may be no good way to handle that.&nbsp; A couple of years ago, I was in the office of the president of a Fortune 500 company on other business and his walls had such material, also, low grade things of metal and paper surrounded by frames worth more.&nbsp; I bought him something truly collectible from Heritage and asked them to contact him directly at that level.&nbsp; I never heard back from him.&nbsp; It is sort of a corollary to the maxim that there is no good way to tell your boss that he is wrong.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not to flog a dead horse, but, again, I believe that <b>in the next generation, those Bicentennial Era boards may become collectible in their own right.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I know, also, that we have a pot-kettle situation here.&nbsp; I have no problem telling people that their Morgan Dollar VAMS and World War II Walking Liberties in MS-65 and other such junk are over-populated examples of second-rate art.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Buffalo Nickel, the $3 gold, the 3-cent silver and 3-cent nickel ...&nbsp; Large US notes, and much of the world paper money generally...&nbsp; certain Hard Times Tokens, many Conders ...&nbsp; City View Thalers...&nbsp; Many ancient Greeks ...&nbsp; You can find many worthwhile examples of numismatics.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But <b>most of this USA federal stuff is hardly worth a tenth of the selling price:</b>&nbsp; it was produced in astronomical quantities, saved and collected for a century without actual use, and cribbed from other designs, at that.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a Ponzi Scheme: each buyer expects to find a bigger fool willing to pay even more for something that has no use: no marginal utility; no production possibilities curve. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the science fiction novel, <i>Merchant&#039;s War</i>, the hero gets addicted to his competitor&#039;s cola drink and goes into detox where he meets someone addicted to collectibles. (&quot;100% Genuine nearly silver Busts of the Mongol Chiefs&quot;.)&nbsp; <b>Of course, they are collectible, he says, that&#039;s all you can do with them is collect them.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to get down to trivia, imagine a Red Book about Red Books...&nbsp; What next, a Blue Book about Blue Books?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>De gustibus non disputandum est.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s usually best to find some common grounds, but, again, I know that I am not in position to give good advice on getting along well with others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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