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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 21060, member: 57463&quot;]1: Then the bargains are in those areas of missing knowledge.&nbsp; If you cannot find a specialty club serving a segment, that is a clue.&nbsp; If you cannot find a book on a subject, that is a red flag, siren, bells, and flashing lights.</p><p><br /></p><p>2: The most mature markets operate on &quot;perfect knowledge.&quot; Everyone knows what everyone else knows and communication is instanteous.&nbsp; (Of course, we are limited creatures.&nbsp; We both &quot;could&quot; read Van Allen &amp; Mallis, but I have not; have you?)&nbsp; With weekly coin newspapers and especially internet forums such as this, news travels fast. Coin dealers have their own networks, personal, print, and electronic.</p><p><br /></p><p>2a:&nbsp; Numismatics is an ideal marketplace for two reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>*It is a hobby.*&nbsp; So, we are all idle, mentating philosophers here, not sweating laborers happy not to starve to death while validating Adam Smith.&nbsp; So, this is a platonic ideal of human interactions.</p><p><br /></p><p>*We buy and sell money.* It is a meta-market, where the norms and expectations of capitalism are distilled and taken neat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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