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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3008085, member: 10461&quot;]That&#039;s a good point.&nbsp; I suppose if you&#039;re an extremely specialized collector, and something as rare as the proverbial golden hen&#039;s tooth is in front of you, and you know another might not come on the market again for a generation or more, you have to make your move, and fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you,&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t really know.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never been an <i>extremely</i> specialized collector, though when I was trying to build a <i>date set </i>of Seated dimes ... <i><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/">with love token reverses</a></i>, I tasted some of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>If an 1844 or 1846 dime with a love token reverse had shown up in front of me, I&#039;d have pounced, even if the coin was PO1, smashed with a ballpeen hammer, and the engraving was a stick figure scratched into the coin with a rusty nail.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then there&#039;s pure dumb luck- I found a key date <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779187" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779187">1880 dime</a> love token in a bulk lot for $7.50, which I liked more than the one I had paid $125.00 for.&nbsp; You&#039;d likely be waiting years to see another love token on an 1880 dime, since the host coin is 7.3 times rarer than the 1916-D dime, and then only a tiny fraction of the small mintage got made into love tokens. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there&#039;s the advantage to collecting &quot;off the beaten track&quot;, in a narrow niche- nobody bothered to think about how rare the 1880 dime in that lot was, because it had been made into a love token![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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