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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 633207, member: 57463&quot;]I have some Hutt River notes and stamps.&nbsp; Hutt River Principality publicizes every time one of them meets with a representative from another government, such as Taiwan, whose own nationhood is increasingly problematic.&nbsp; HRP followed some protocols and they recognize Queen Elizabeth II of England as their liege lord.&nbsp; When they travel, they make a point of presenting HRP passports.&nbsp; Sometimes, customs officials stamp them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for rarity and value, however...&nbsp; Consider the Bank of Upper Canada tokens.&nbsp; They have a fraction the mintage of US Large Cents of the same period and they are much nicer, struck by the Heaton Mint in the UK, whcih was far ahead of Philadelphia.&nbsp; BUCs are nearly medallic, they are so nice.&nbsp; But they never fetch much at market.&nbsp; Another example would be the coins of Tibet. They have relatively low mintages, but, again, &quot;no one&quot; (few) collect them, so they are priced at a fraction of equivalent US coins.&nbsp; In terms of ancients, there is an active effort to catalogue previously unlisted Roman coins.&nbsp; My own interest in ancients is archaic Greek.&nbsp; It&#039;s pretty easy to acquire a museum piece, nominally unique, but, again, with a pricetag that is embarrassing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Dealer Frank Robinson wrote a book, <i>Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatiic</i>.&nbsp; He says that when he was a kid, the Brasher Doubloons were all the rage, but he would say that these are common compared to the many unique coins he owned -- he collected Chinese cash.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I may...&nbsp; Our publicly-financed educational system has traditionally met competition only from the Catholic schools.&nbsp; Neither is ideologically positioned to teach capitalism.&nbsp; We easily think that SUPPLY defines price, but that is not true.&nbsp; DEMAND drives the markets.&nbsp; Supply is important, of course, but only relative to demand.&nbsp; So, even here in numismatics, where we buy and sell money for fun, we have to step back and re-think what should be axiomatic.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of that is to say, if you want to increase the value, then increase the demand.&nbsp; Write an article about HRP and your coin.&nbsp; All 1804 Dollars are fakes, but someone wrote a book and now they are the &quot;King of Coins.&quot;&nbsp; Go figure...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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