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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 3379361, member: 13650&quot;]Baseball21 nailed it.&nbsp; What you see now is a true market.&nbsp; The TPGs weren&#039;t founded until the mid 80s.&nbsp;&nbsp; I got my first crappy cell phone in 1999.&nbsp; We may have had internet at home in the late 90s but it wasn&#039;t very good.&nbsp; Nothing compared to now.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I have excellent internet, and all the info in the world available on my computer and on my cell phone.&nbsp; Have for some time.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If we&#039;re being honest about valuating ANY hobby, lets say there was a pre-2000 market that may make for good entertainment today (read: wax nostalgia) but shouldn&#039;t be used as valuable information for valuating anything anymore!&nbsp;&nbsp; Now we&#039;re in a post modern era where homeless people could buy a coin off ebay on their smart phone if they want.&nbsp; Or look up any information they want.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The market is greatly affected by overall interest and the <u>economy</u>.&nbsp; In addition, collectors themselves drive whats hot and whats not.&nbsp; But the big things that have changed is availability of data and the connecting of everyone worldwide through the internet.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s no more speculating.&nbsp; There&#039;s no more relying on local dealers connections to find a single example of something.&nbsp; (If they even can.)&nbsp; &nbsp; Now everyone has population reports at their disposal.&nbsp;&nbsp; We know what is actually rare and what&#039;s common.&nbsp; Rarities once thought impossible are now available.&nbsp; This has caused the value of some things to sky rocket and some things to plummet.&nbsp;&nbsp; But it&#039;s based on reality now versus speculation from only a couple decades ago.&nbsp; &nbsp; To me that&#039;s a good thing.&nbsp;&nbsp; I embrace the reality of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I want a MS-64 1921 high relief Peace dollar.&nbsp; I know what the mintage was.&nbsp; I know what the population reports are.&nbsp; The coin market may be soft but.... nobody&#039;s giving these away today.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can see they&#039;ve been relatively flat with some ups and downs but are currently priced at about $100 more today than they were in 2005.&nbsp;&nbsp; What did they go for in 1990?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know and that info really doesn&#039;t even matter any more.&nbsp; &nbsp; There was no way to even know what exactly was being bought and sold back then compared to now anyway.&nbsp; People may not like the TPGs but to me they brought clarity, at least for the better quality stuff within the hobby.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now we have something to quantify.&nbsp; Before you did not.&nbsp; This inevitably had to happen for better or worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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