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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 24076, member: 57463&quot;]As you obviously are not going to listen to common sense, you might as well listen to me: <u>keys.</u>&nbsp; The 1909-S VDB, etc., etc., etc., etc.&nbsp; You can find them in the Red Book.&nbsp; You can find tons of articles about them.&nbsp; Everyone knows them; everyone likes them; everyone wants them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the money is not in <b>selling</b> coins, but in <u>buying</u> them.&nbsp; Collectors get suckered into &quot;Greysheet&quot; prices all the time because they think that this so-called &quot;Coin Dealer Newsletter&quot; is some kind of secret club that they are now privileged to join ... for $100 a year...&nbsp; You see them at coin shows all the time with Greysheet sticking out from their pockets, walking targets each one, a fish who put the hook in his own mouth and is looking for an angler to reel him in.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Oh! I bought this Gem BU Sliding Indian Trime for 10% back of bid!..&nbsp; </i> Of course you did... and you could only do that because someone else took a loss when they sold, which is what will happen to you when you sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the Greatest Worldclass Collections (Pittman, Eliasberg, 1804 This or 1913 That or you name it), you will see losses against inflation.&nbsp; More to the point, you will see <b>tremendous losses against productive effort not invested.</b>&nbsp; Pittman was an engineer for Kodak.&nbsp; Eliasberg was in oil.&nbsp; Money put into those technologies would have returned much more to those men.</p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>This is a hobby.</b> </u>&nbsp; Dealers make money by bringing buyers and sellers together. Collectors enjoy the ownership of artistic rarities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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