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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ajm229, post: 65560, member: 3350&quot;]Ouch, thanks for shooting down part of my collection in a big ball of flames. I have to intensely disagree with you there. It is absolutely NOT a waste of money, <span style="color: Red"><u><i>as long as you know what you are getting into and what you&#039;re buying.</i></u></span> I have bought a couple coins from the National Collector&#039;s Mint (not the most loved place right now, I know, so let&#039;s not get into that!), and I bought them because I liked the designs and I wanted to add them to my collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that part of our job as numismatists is to educate &quot;newbies&quot; that buying coins from reputable sources (AKA ANA members, coin dealers with established backgrounds, etc.) is ESSENTIAL to the hobby, but it&#039;s perfectly okay to indulge and buy things you like from not-so-reputable places like the NCM, just so long as you realize that you&#039;ll be spending the money the same as when buying anything &quot;as seen on TV.&quot; (By the way, the ones I got from NCM are the 9/11 Commem. with the &quot;real silver plating from the Trade Center&quot; and the &quot;51st State Quarter Commem.&quot;) </p><p><br /></p><p>I liked the designs of these two items, and wasn&#039;t particularly interested in the metal content or future resale potential simply because I don&#039;t intend to sell them any time soon. To me, the NCM 9/11 coin was a better representation of what happened that day than anything the US Mint has released. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just hope that we can continue to educate as well as we have been while also not shutting out people&#039;s ideas that buying from these kind of places is still okay, because it is!</p><p><br /></p><p>~AJ[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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