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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2931249, member: 77413&quot;]This brings up a point I have been thinking about recently, too. A friend asked be to look at sets of Lincolns, Buffalo nickels, and Mercury dimes put together by a deceased relative. It was amazingly poor quality - as if the collector went out of their way to find the most worn circulated pieces they could find.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an area where I think a change is being seen. I think this kind of bulk circulated - dare I say - garbage, has seen its day and will pretty much be unmarketable. If you have an album that nags you to fill in a hole with something, and could pull it from circulation, you would set aside these coins. Not now.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure that new collectors want to fill books from circulation. If the internet has brought a new era and approach, it is to match a collector with good examples of what they want while breaking down the boundaries of series collecting from what you can find in pocket change.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see sales prices from Heritage, Stacks &amp; Bowers, and Legend, and realize I&#039;m not in that league and never will be. But someone is buying this, and throwing serious money around to get what they want. I could not begin to speculate whether these are numismatists who just happen to be very wealthy, or the very wealthy who are investing in a speculative commodity. Nonetheless, that area seems amazingly robust.</p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t be participating in the high end or in the bulk garbage end, either. What I do think is that the vast amount of low-end coins do not, and will not, have a market. That&#039;s disappointing for those who have them, but should not affect the numismatist who finds that every coin they want is available to them in grades they can appreciate, often in reach of a modest budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>The market may be changing, but I think its a maturation, not a collapse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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