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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 26401978, member: 104064"]Some of you have already mentioned the two main things I see that has changed, especially over the past 5 years or so - the proliferation of counterfeits, and horribly bad information being spread on social media and now AI (Actually Idiocy). It seems everybody getting into the hobby now thinks they're going to "get rich from pocket change", and greed has overrun the hobby. When I started out, all anybody did was try to fill an album. It seemed like almost anyone quickly recognized a damaged coin, and what a better one looked like to swap into an album. Nobody gave a single thought to finding some sort of "error", and if they did find a real one, it was seen as inferior anyway. Wishful thinking meant that you dreamed of finding a 1909-S VDB. Nobody was interested in "error" coins, nor toned coins either. Blast white ruled. I still find most toned coins to be unattractive except when lit up just the right way, but now they command crazy premiums. That's my brain dump on the subject.[/QUOTE]