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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 604450, member: 8012&quot;]Well Tom, a couple of comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; The original post really didn&#039;t say anything about 20 or thirty years from now - just today.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; One could give a lot of examples where 10 items of average quality did not go up nearly as much as one item of really superior quality.&nbsp; Quick one that comes to mind - 20 years ago, a VG 1949-P Roosevelt was worth silver melt value.&nbsp; The same is true today.&nbsp; While a MS-65 1949-P has gone up 100-fold.&nbsp; And of course, there are counter examples, but I think coins that are common and cheap today will more or less be that way in the near to mid future.&nbsp; Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are people who collect only the finest - they have the patience to save the money and wait for the right example to come along.&nbsp; I admire that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of us aren&#039;t like that and we end up with a hodge-podge of stuff, half-completed sets, piles of foreign coins we&#039;re going to go through one day and never enough money to buy our &quot;precious&quot;.... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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