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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3925720, member: 19463"]For those of us who collect for the coins and not for their investment potential, it seems good for the coin market to crash making today's fine collections sell for flea market prices. However, this would put out of business the well organized coin dealers and eliminate the online images that we now enjoy. Coins would be impossible to find and many would be melted. I won't live to see this happen but I wish I were more certain about the few collectors still around after collecting dies. How many collectors would buy fine coins if they knew that there would be negative return on their 'investment'? Would that number support the publication of catalogs (paper or online) like the recent Triton XXIII? </p><p><br /></p><p>My wife collects bells. She was a member of a bell collector club which folded when the founding members were either gone or over 90 and the young ones were 70. Driving many miles for a club meeting gets hard when you reach a certain age. I suspect her bell collection will be hard to give away when she is gone. </p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o1/88/582688/1/139716552.XbhsSbhM.0bell0468.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3925720, member: 19463"]For those of us who collect for the coins and not for their investment potential, it seems good for the coin market to crash making today's fine collections sell for flea market prices. However, this would put out of business the well organized coin dealers and eliminate the online images that we now enjoy. Coins would be impossible to find and many would be melted. I won't live to see this happen but I wish I were more certain about the few collectors still around after collecting dies. How many collectors would buy fine coins if they knew that there would be negative return on their 'investment'? Would that number support the publication of catalogs (paper or online) like the recent Triton XXIII? My wife collects bells. She was a member of a bell collector club which folded when the founding members were either gone or over 90 and the young ones were 70. Driving many miles for a club meeting gets hard when you reach a certain age. I suspect her bell collection will be hard to give away when she is gone. [IMG]https://a4.pbase.com/o1/88/582688/1/139716552.XbhsSbhM.0bell0468.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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