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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1809905, member: 57463&quot;]3.&nbsp; Goto StacksBowers.com and search for &quot;error&quot; and I expect that you will be somewhat disappointed.&nbsp; That market is not yet mature.&nbsp; And I had to laugh at the 9-planchet die cap, an obviously manufactured fakery smuggled out of the Mint, as phony as the 1913 Liberty Nickels.&nbsp; And yet, the mainstream of the hobby endorses them.&nbsp; If you want to make money, sell what other people want to buy.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Another funny thing is that what I see is that <b>as collectors mature, they get out of US coins entirely.</b>&nbsp; Seateds and Barbers are just knock-offs of Greeks and Romans. Might as well collect the real thing.&nbsp; You may have seen Ian&#039;s posts of his &quot;city view thalers&quot; here or elsewhere.&nbsp; Coins like that fascinate collectors. I mean one time I was putting Mercury dimes in 2x2s and for a like a 31-S or 21-D or something I wrote &quot;1 million. Rare.&quot; and my daughter said, &quot;Dad, nothing with a million is rare.&quot; Conders, Hard Times, Civil War Tokens, ... Canadian Maritimes, ... For a while, I was fascinated by medieval trade and commerce and wrote an article about the Great Fairs of Champagne; and tangential to that, I have a silver penny from Genoa. A constitutional republic, Genoa struck coins in the name of Conrad, an unsuccessful pretender to the Holy Roman Empire who never stepped foot in the city.&nbsp; Gotta love that... regardless of the aftermarket for Conrad&#039;s Genoa Pennies.&nbsp; You don&#039;t get that with Mint State Seated Quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I agree that his advice is sound for US Coins, used cars, rare wine, Hummels, or Depression Glass.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you want to be successful, sell what other people want to buy.</p><p>(I should write murder mysteries about a divorcee who moves back to her home town only to discover ...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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