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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6437447, member: 19463"]This bothers me when I see large lots of coin in the several hundred $$$ per coin group. The recent flood on the market of early electrum has produced wonderful individual coins and piles of coins considered to undesirable to sell separately but made expensive by their metal. The king of large lots IMHO was the AK collection groups sold by CNG in several Triton sales. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a matter of opinion. Many collectors ignore any coin under mint state as if it did not exist. Some of us are happy when small dealers buy up large lots and separate them out for those of us who did not want the whole group. I have no 'recent' coins to show but some of my favorite coins over the years have come from groups of 30 or more sold by people who did not see what I saw in terms of the desirability of the coins. That is why I mourn the demise of the thousands of small dealers leaving us nowhere to get coins except the large numismatic Wal-mart style auction houses. My last hope was coin shows now on long term hold or gone forever. Which(?) remains to be seen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6437447, member: 19463"]This bothers me when I see large lots of coin in the several hundred $$$ per coin group. The recent flood on the market of early electrum has produced wonderful individual coins and piles of coins considered to undesirable to sell separately but made expensive by their metal. The king of large lots IMHO was the AK collection groups sold by CNG in several Triton sales. This is a matter of opinion. Many collectors ignore any coin under mint state as if it did not exist. Some of us are happy when small dealers buy up large lots and separate them out for those of us who did not want the whole group. I have no 'recent' coins to show but some of my favorite coins over the years have come from groups of 30 or more sold by people who did not see what I saw in terms of the desirability of the coins. That is why I mourn the demise of the thousands of small dealers leaving us nowhere to get coins except the large numismatic Wal-mart style auction houses. My last hope was coin shows now on long term hold or gone forever. Which(?) remains to be seen.[/QUOTE]
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