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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2109620, member: 71723&quot;]Wow, why do you insist on trying to shove words in my mouth by replacing my &quot;trend&quot; observations with absolutes? That&#039;s not terribly academically honest, is it now? As you stated the query, the answer is &quot;Duh. No.&quot; But if you allow me to alter your query to return it to the parameters in which I originally argued it, then the answer is &quot;Yes, precisely that.&quot; I expect the mainstream of numismatics that has held up the hobby for the majority of my life to economically implode, and not that long from now, either. The long term trend, EXCEPT AT THE&nbsp; VERY HIGHEST END, i.e. the uber rarity end with material auctioned by Sotheby&#039;s and Heritage and Stacks Bowers, is completely bearish, and not just by a little. That high end knows no apparent upper limit, and should we start to observe one, Katie bar the door, the utter implosion of the collector market will have been well underway.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to &quot;our lifetimes&quot;, nothing could matter to me less. For a variety of medical reasons, my lifetime could just as easy end 5 minutes from now. NOTHING I&#039;ve done in numismatics for the last ten years has been for me, but for my son, who loves numismatics, but in a manner the you&#039;s, and Matt Dingers and Dougs would scarcely recognize. His chief driving motivation in his collecting endeavours in neither art, nor history, nor science, nor even profit. If I were forced to name it, it might best be called &quot;irony&quot;. So I practice numismatic irony in my acquisitions, because it&#039;s not about me, it&#039;s about him. A legacy is much better when its nature is informed by the recipient. It&#039;s something we do together. I don&#039;t shove a 1963 ethos down his gullet.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, there are extremely serious individuals trying to abolish cash even as we write these paragraphs, and they are gaining steam.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you seem to have conflated marriage and cohabitation. It&#039;s a common error. You won&#039;t be the last to make it. Most of the other people making the error are judges, justices, and legislators.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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