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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marc Aceton, post: 2020673, member: 72101&quot;]Like Joe and Jeff, I claim to be a collector of what Jeff is calling &quot;investment quality&quot;. And I can understand exactly what Jeff means with coins that you &quot;see and have an emotional feeling for them&quot;. There are some coins in my collection I would never sell even if I could could achieve a huge profit. These items are those whom I would call to be of &quot;investment quality&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, one should not be deceived about the true market value of even showpiece quality. Eventually, you will get for your coins exactly - or even less - what the prospective buyer is willing to pay in the moment and the place you are purchasing the item. And especially usual dealers will <u>not</u> spend considerably more for &quot;investment quality&quot; than for sub-par quality coins as e.g. Jeff, Joe and I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, there is one point I - as a bronze collector - am not tired of repeating: <b>Tampering</b>! Not only the notorious auction houses can be blamed that they are omitting to mention in a grossly negligent manner manipulations. And when I talk about manipulations, I mean something different than ridiculous tooling.</p><p><br /></p><p>The greed for &quot;investment quality&quot; made me frequently fall prey in the trap. Eventually, I had to victimize some of my better coins to compensate the losses realized on the sale of my acetone victims. I can only recommend inexperienced collectors to show restraint and to learn about the methods of the fraudsters before succumbing to the temptation to invest much money in ostensible &quot;investment quality&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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