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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2415586, member: 78153&quot;]My suspicion is that these third parties you reference are exaggerating their claims and maybe substantially.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the rest of your post, you should also be aware that all collectors and most dealers are specialists to one degree or another because no one can know a lot (much less everything) about all coins.&nbsp; Some dealers will buy most anything if they think they can make a profit but hedge their bets by paying low prices where they don&#039;t know much about the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing you should know is that many collectors have (hugely) inflated opinions of both the financial and perceived numismatic merits of the coins they like.&nbsp; I have seen this many times on other coin forums and have contradicted these claims on many occasions.&nbsp; For example, South African collectors definitely have this opinion of better grade Union and ZAR and the evident reason they do is because &quot;investment&quot; seems to be a lot more important to a disproportionate number or percentage of buyers for the mid and higher priced coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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