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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 636665, member: 13650&quot;]Yeah.&nbsp; Me too.&nbsp; Sometimes I just feel like buying a coin for the look of it or the history of it.&nbsp; Maybe just for the fun of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; The price is likely low to begin with.&nbsp; So sometimes I&#039;m willing to pay a few extra dollars more than something is worth rather than leaving it behind.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do this occasionally.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m glad low end, 150 year old coins are still relatively abundant and affordable.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some day maybe they won&#039;t be?&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I agree, maybe some coins should be X&#039;d and sent to the melting pots.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen many that we could live without.&nbsp; But I would hate to see that get carried away.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the next thing is, who&#039;s going to be willing to do that?&nbsp; &nbsp; Who&#039;s going to deface a $20+ value holed dime, despite damage or condition and send it in to be melted at a loss?&nbsp; &nbsp; The answer:&nbsp; NOBODY!&nbsp;&nbsp; And it only gets worse as you go up.&nbsp; &nbsp; Nobody&#039;s going to send a rare, but damaged, cleaned, scratched, doctored, $1000 quarter eagle in and get paid back the melt value for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; It comes down to the fact that we&#039;re going to be stuck with buyer beware like anything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;As for strictly uninformed investors paying thousands for slabs (not the coins in them), I really don&#039;t care what they do.&nbsp;&nbsp; They will lose like everybody that stuck 100% of their wealth into the Madoff scam.&nbsp; &nbsp; If people have more money than sense, and no desire to learn, there&#039;s nothing anyone can do for them.&nbsp;&nbsp; If they don&#039;t lose it on bad coins, they&#039;ll lose it in some other scam.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m sure there&#039;s a huge market that has accumulated all the rejects and problem slabs, strictly set up to scam people.&nbsp; They&#039;re making a fortune no doubt.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably most of the adds you see in magazine articles for slabbed, &#039;uncirculated&#039;, unseen coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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