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<p>[QUOTE="World Colonial, post: 2420701, member: 78153"]What set or sets do you have in mind?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are referring to the most popular US sets, it isn't that there aren't enough collectors with the money. If there are as many as two million active US collectors (my rough guesstimate) there must be at least several hundred thousands whose collections are worth as much or more than mine which is about $50k. The actual reason for what you state is that most collectors who can afford these sets would usually rather buy something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is evident from the data in the Heritage archives. If you stratify US sales records by price point (<$100, $100 to $999...), it is self-evident that popular as measured by the (potential) size of the collector base does not equal an actual preference. My review of this data seems to indicate that only the Morgan dollar and Lincoln cent are preferred by a large number of "big budget" collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="World Colonial, post: 2420701, member: 78153"]What set or sets do you have in mind? If you are referring to the most popular US sets, it isn't that there aren't enough collectors with the money. If there are as many as two million active US collectors (my rough guesstimate) there must be at least several hundred thousands whose collections are worth as much or more than mine which is about $50k. The actual reason for what you state is that most collectors who can afford these sets would usually rather buy something else. This is evident from the data in the Heritage archives. If you stratify US sales records by price point (<$100, $100 to $999...), it is self-evident that popular as measured by the (potential) size of the collector base does not equal an actual preference. My review of this data seems to indicate that only the Morgan dollar and Lincoln cent are preferred by a large number of "big budget" collectors.[/QUOTE]
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