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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lawdogct, post: 57051, member: 1476&quot;]I follow some of what Speedy is thinking.&nbsp; To use a parallel example.&nbsp; When I was a kid in the 70&#039;s and early 80&#039;s, you watch a movie, then the toys came out.&nbsp; Now you get slammed with a flood of toys months before even the movie trailers come out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype. Hype......all to make more $$&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the funniest example of hyped up &quot;name brand&quot; coins are ship wreck coins.&nbsp; If your buying such a coin for the history, cool, but numismatically, can you think of any other type of mega super duper clean coined that gets slabbed/graded by the big 3 without being noted as &quot;cleaned&quot;.&nbsp; Ship wreck coins obviously get cleaned,&nbsp; but some folks go a bit nuts if they find out a coin has ever come into contact with distilled water and wasn&#039;t labeled as &quot;cleaned&quot;.&nbsp; Anywho.....</p><p><br /></p><p>A few more thoughts:</p><p><br /></p><p>As GD is fond of stating, &quot;By the coin, not the holder&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If I had some &quot;name brand&quot; coin, and someone wanted to pay me a %200 mark up for it, I&#039;d think they had more dollars than sense, and help lighten their burden of all that excess $$&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, everything is only worth what some sucker is willing to pay for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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