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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1209564, member: 112&quot;]Eddie - what&#039;s the most commonly asked question there is about any coin ? </p><p><br /></p><p>In one form or another, people ask what&#039;s it worth more than do anything else. That right there tells a huge story. It tells me that the driving interest for most people is not the beauty or the history that goes with the coin. Nor is it the desire to &quot;fill the hole&quot;. What most people seem to really care about the most is if they paid a fair price for the coin or if they will be able to sell that coin for a profit somewhere down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>So your points about people really being collectors are valid ones. I also believe they are accurate. Most people really are not collectors who collect because they &quot;like&quot; the coins. They collect because they think they can make money on their collection. They collect because they believe that having that collection gives them a certain status. They collect because they want the bragging rights the collection gives them. They collect because they want to hear the oooooohs and aaaaahs from other collectors when they share their collection with them. But the single underlying and driving force behind it all is the value. For without the value, none of the other things exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of these things are bad. It&#039;s human nature, that&#039;s just the way most people are. There are far, far more plastic buyers than there are coin buyers. There are far, far more hopeful investors than there are collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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