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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2113898, member: 71723"]Here's what gets me. On here (CoinTalk) I read from dealer after dealer about how "nothing" the modern coin field is. But then two of the last three Harry Forman Dealers of the Year were primarily modern dealers (Patrick Heller and Lee Minshull); since the 2014 ANA Rosemont show, not one, but at least two and maybe three modern-only sticker services have sprung up; and at aforementioned ANA show thousands of umm, err, people(?) slept outside on wet concrete and let comfy air-conditioned hotel rooms lie empty to get an unlimited release modern gold coin (and at least one ANA ex-president was among them).</p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody is reading different tea leaves from other somebodies. It strikes me that confident bluster on what shall be is more hope than knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2113898, member: 71723"]Here's what gets me. On here (CoinTalk) I read from dealer after dealer about how "nothing" the modern coin field is. But then two of the last three Harry Forman Dealers of the Year were primarily modern dealers (Patrick Heller and Lee Minshull); since the 2014 ANA Rosemont show, not one, but at least two and maybe three modern-only sticker services have sprung up; and at aforementioned ANA show thousands of umm, err, people(?) slept outside on wet concrete and let comfy air-conditioned hotel rooms lie empty to get an unlimited release modern gold coin (and at least one ANA ex-president was among them). Somebody is reading different tea leaves from other somebodies. It strikes me that confident bluster on what shall be is more hope than knowledge.[/QUOTE]
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