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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 4508983, member: 94602&quot;]Let&#039;s not try to make Clio a saint. I don&#039;t care if it was actually Clio or the Chilean billionaire or Scrooge McDuck who bought 70% of the coins in CNG auction. If the Chilean didn&#039;t exist, Clio would have bought 70%, he just now got Clio&#039;d himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever does this, it is not a healthy bahavior nor a healthy collection. It is like a swarm of locusts or a black hole devouring everything. We have seen in the past 2 centuries some exquisite collections getting auctioned or donated to authorities. How many coins did these collections count? A thousand in most cases and up to ten thousand at most. Now looking at Clio et al. they have at least 100.000 coins. What is the idea behind? Can you actually ever enjoy all these coins? I bet after a couple of thousands you will even forget what you have...</p><p><br /></p><p>On the contrary people like [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] are building healthy collections. A limited number of excellent examples. He has sold some of his coins that didn&#039;t fit anymore in his collection so they came in the market again. Did you ever see anything getting out the monster&#039;s belly? While bidder handles were displayed in CNG and ROMA, I never witnessed such an occasion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t consider [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] a rival. He targets coins worth of 10.000-100.000 each, so he plays in another category. Even if I could spend that amount per coin, I would probably move to collecting ancient pottery or statues. I like to admire his collection. He does not mess up with every single ordinary bidder in an auction. Now compare with the 2 others...They buy everything, they collect all categories, they don&#039;t care of condition, they buy VF or VF+, one of them will pay a lot for&nbsp; whatever provenanced scrap metal is available like Chile has any strict rules for cultural heritage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope both of these persons disappear as they are a serious harm/threat to the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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