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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 191827, member: 1886&quot;]My prediction is that 20 years from now Topical collecting will be&nbsp; a mania in this country. Competition between collectors will not be who can put together the highest grade collection, or coins of lowest mintage or lowest &quot;pop&quot;&nbsp; but who can put together the most unique or even bizarre&nbsp; theme.&nbsp; The value of a single coin will center less on mintage and scarcity and more on how it relates to the theme. The greatest asset for a collector&nbsp; will be &quot;artistic instinct&quot; rather than deep pockets--which by that time will only be deep in&nbsp; defunct wall-paper anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors will do this, IMO, because they can. Because the Internet&nbsp; makes supply/choices&nbsp; unlimited especially with dark side coins and exonumia, both of which are practically bottom-less pits of supply.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The future&nbsp; has to be radically different from the past because radical technology (Internet access) alters the cost and rewards of certain actions. Using the Internet,&nbsp; reduces the cost--(in time) of hunting down world coins and exonumia. So now&nbsp; rewards of building Topical collections increases--Everyone with Internet access has an equal chance to be a feudal lord.&nbsp; It&#039;s a good ratio, lower costs higher rewards :bow: </p><p><br /></p><p>Also the costs--(in money)&nbsp; will decrease because there may well be a million feudal lords dispersing their efforts through a million different Topicals.&nbsp; A particular coin or token may interest someone with a particular theme in mind but have little interest to everyone else at the moment. It&#039;s not going to be easy for a seller&nbsp; to get an extra $10,000 for a coin because it has:&nbsp; &quot;Fully Struck&nbsp; Eye-Balls&quot;--WOW![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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