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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2915813, member: 76863&quot;]It really feels like some collectors really want collecting to fail.&nbsp; I will never understand why there is always talk going on at forum or another about how the hobby is doomed and failing.&nbsp; I know some of it is people hoping to drive prices down so they can buy more but still. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway for the question trying to use stamps as a comparison has been done a million times but stamps were never as popular as coins are in the first place.&nbsp; The high end ones are doing just fine it&#039;s just that no one here pays any attention to them.&nbsp; A stamp sold for $9.5 million in 2014 as one example. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless there shouldn&#039;t be comparisons with stamps, they&#039;re two entirely different things. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not really.&nbsp; We know much more now than we did three decades ago and numismatics improved when Breen stopped writing books and letters.&nbsp; We&#039;ve even had some great rarities come back to light in that time. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not at all.&nbsp; The modal internet-bound collector is no where near the schmuck online forums try and present them as.&nbsp; There are some just as there are in coin shows and shops, but the average one knows what they&#039;re doing. </p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to always be the ones that largely avoid participating in the internet market place that think the internet collectors are clueless.&nbsp; The hobby has a bright future of people collecting what and how they want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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