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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1549770, member: 26302"]Exactly. I view the possibility of someone recreating a "complete" US collection as long gone. When this was accomplished you probably had 1/1000th the collectors in the US, and didn't have TPG promoting condition census rarities and the like. You also didn't have very many people thinking coins were a good investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF someone started young, was a Walton or similarly fantastically rich family heir, and spent 70 years trying to accomplish it, they may get within a couple of coins. I simply feel way too many coins people would believe are "needed" have been taken off the market permanently, (museum donations), or in similarly rich family hands who never intend to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heck, even the complete collection from a relatively minor and short lived mint, was hailed as a "once in a lifetime" collection recently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1549770, member: 26302"]Exactly. I view the possibility of someone recreating a "complete" US collection as long gone. When this was accomplished you probably had 1/1000th the collectors in the US, and didn't have TPG promoting condition census rarities and the like. You also didn't have very many people thinking coins were a good investment. IF someone started young, was a Walton or similarly fantastically rich family heir, and spent 70 years trying to accomplish it, they may get within a couple of coins. I simply feel way too many coins people would believe are "needed" have been taken off the market permanently, (museum donations), or in similarly rich family hands who never intend to sell. Heck, even the complete collection from a relatively minor and short lived mint, was hailed as a "once in a lifetime" collection recently.[/QUOTE]
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