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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 541510, member: 2972&quot;]I do know your perspective on those issues, and please don&#039;t get the wrong idea....&nbsp; My preceding post was not an indictment of your ethics/morals, but rather what I think will happen to the coin market if the (completely rational and ethical) position you take were to be widely subscribed to.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, now that I think about it a bit more, perhaps we can strike a balance where it doesn&#039;t matter and the coins are valued the same.&nbsp; Although I think the toned coin market overall (to include the NT coins) would suffer -- perhaps a bit of a pullback as the market digests this realization would occur.&nbsp; Or perhaps I&#039;m dead wrong and it&#039;s already factored into the market pricing on these coins (although the rate that the TPGs award &quot;bonus&quot; points for color leads me to believe that it may not be true).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t speak for anyone but myself, but originality does matter to me -- even if the duplicate can&#039;t be distinguished from the original.&nbsp; To use a hypothetical (which I hope is a bit more applicable than the last one):</p><p><br /></p><p>If you placed two coins on a table that looked exactly the same, and told me which was which, I would choose the NT coin every time.&nbsp; If you asked me to place a value on each coin, I would value the NT coin higher.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you placed two coins on the table and didn&#039;t tell me which was which and asked me to pick a coin, I would hesitate and I might even choose neither. Even more to the point, if you asked me to place a value on the coins, I would respond with a lower value than the preceeding example.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just how I feel -- I want the real thing -- and I can&#039;t help it.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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