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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2055640, member: 19463"]"One cost $12 and the other $330. Assuming I am not crazy, there must be something in my mind that made the one so much more valuable than the other."</p><p><br /></p><p>My collection has so many examples of this but in most cases I think it is too much to assume that I am not crazy. I realize in the long run that I pay way too much for some coins and way too little for others. If I were to try to sell them, I would not only have to find another person equally crazy but another person crazy in the same way I am. There is no way I would pay $330 for the coin here discussed but I recently paid $340 for a coin I'll bet no more than two people here could separate from a pile of $34 coins. This is a case of knowledge not only informing me what I want but of equally well making me crazy if we use throwing money around a measure of that condition. At least when we throw money based on information, it is not randomly throwing. Does that make me less crazy?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2055640, member: 19463"]"One cost $12 and the other $330. Assuming I am not crazy, there must be something in my mind that made the one so much more valuable than the other." My collection has so many examples of this but in most cases I think it is too much to assume that I am not crazy. I realize in the long run that I pay way too much for some coins and way too little for others. If I were to try to sell them, I would not only have to find another person equally crazy but another person crazy in the same way I am. There is no way I would pay $330 for the coin here discussed but I recently paid $340 for a coin I'll bet no more than two people here could separate from a pile of $34 coins. This is a case of knowledge not only informing me what I want but of equally well making me crazy if we use throwing money around a measure of that condition. At least when we throw money based on information, it is not randomly throwing. Does that make me less crazy?[/QUOTE]
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