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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 640684, member: 16948&quot;]Doug, perhaps occasionally, just like in any other sales business, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s prevalent.&nbsp; It&#039;s probable that some dealers engage in coin hype just to push up prices of a particular series, but because I&#039;m not in the circle with all the &quot;big boys&quot; who would most likely be the ones in the best position to be pushing certain series of coins just to increase prices, I can&#039;t say I&#039;ve actually seen it or known it to happen.&nbsp; My experience, and perhaps naively, is that the dealers I hang around with (including a couple well known dealers) actually LOVE coins and are buying and selling coins because we not only are trying to make a living, but we really enjoy it. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Most dealers I know are just trying to sell coins for the best price we can get, of course, and that&#039;s the bottom line in this and any sales business.&nbsp; </i>I think it would take too much effort, too much time spent &quot;pounding the pavement,&quot; and it would take too many &quot;gullible&quot; buyers for a hyping of coins to work well or work too often.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying it doesn&#039;t happen, because in any business there are &quot;sharks,&quot; but I&#039;m just saying that I personally don&#039;t see it.&nbsp; And besides, most people who are looking to buy higher end coins (to whom I&#039;m assuming hyping of coins would be targeted) are pretty savvy and know their particular coin series well enough not to be taken in by hype.&nbsp; In my experience, people well off enough to be able to afford higher end coins didn&#039;t get that way by being taken in easily or taken advantage of by unscrupulous dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding MPL&#039;s, there are probably only a handful of dealers who really sell quantities of these rare beauties, me included, along with Brian Wagner, Angel Dees, and a few others.&nbsp; I personally do not see any of them hyping MPL&#039;s just to push up prices.&nbsp; As far as I see, they are simply trying to sell them for the best price they can get.&nbsp; And I can tell you it is a lot tougher to sell higher end coins in this current market.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Brian probably sells the most MPL&#039;s of anyone I know - he knows this series inside and out, and he knows their rarity, especially in high grades, and he seems to find and sell the most.&nbsp; On top of that, most of the MPL&#039;s he sells has a ton of eye appeal with gorgeous toning, but he also sells a lot of red MPL&#039;s which are even harder to find.&nbsp; I have bought several nice MPL&#039;s from him, so of course, my prices are going to be higher than what I bought them from him.&nbsp; So if anyone were to be able to push up sales just to increase prices, it would be him, but Brian is a nice guy and I don&#039;t think he&#039;s the kind of person or dealer to do this, but if he were, he would have to be selling these MPL&#039;s for a lot more than he is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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