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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Inspector43, post: 3172858, member: 89213&quot;]My avatar, just to the left, is an 1885 Liberty Nickel. It started my collecting. My aunt gave it to me in 1948. I found that it was worth $5. Wow! It started me collecting. If you tried to purchase it today you would pay 10 times that or more. But, it took 70 years and a serious increase in the collector population. It took visibility and advertising. The internet came along and chat boards like this forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>As that happened, the collector population became very competitive, and &quot;mine is better than yours&quot; took hold. New accumulators and speculators came on the scene. The US Mint started making more coins than they could get into circulation. On and on. I think the hobby has maxed out and the bubble is about to burst.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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