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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2034136, member: 19463&quot;]I would love to know what percentage of books printed survive 100 years and how many non-dealer owners, on average, they have.&nbsp; Similarly, I wonder how many coins actually are collected in more than one collection.&nbsp; I don&#039;t mean a coin that is traded dealer to dealer or even investor to investor (the Hunt Brothers never actually handled their coins so that was not a &#039;collection&#039; as much as a portfolio).&nbsp; Most coins we see sold by many dealers have the look of recent finds or are some dealers reprocessing old collections so they look shiny for modern tastes?&nbsp; I wonder how many owners (not counting dealers who bought for immediate resale) the coins in the earliest CNG catalogs have had and how long the average collector of ancients keeps a coin he buys not with the idea of immediate resale.&nbsp; Every so often we see sales flagged as the property of some deceased collector but it strikes me that years ago we saw more recycled coins so marked in sales (&quot;Property of a Gentleman&quot; sometimes when there was no name).&nbsp;&nbsp; Do dealers actively court you to sell them your coins?&nbsp; I suspect it is easier for them to buy them wholesale.&nbsp; This is not the case with the super high end of the market but I&#039;m talking about the coins we here (save Ides, AJ and a couple others) have.&nbsp; Similarly, I wonder where have those books your wife cherishes spent the last century and if she is the first non-dealer to whom the fact that the book was a first edition was a factor.&nbsp; Collectibles of whatever form can be cherished possessions or inventory on hand depending on who has them at any particular moment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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