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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7878261, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps w overestimate the number of people who know or care Rome ever existed.&nbsp; Or do we underestimate the number that worship current celebrities.&nbsp; I will never understand collecting things made to be collected.&nbsp; That includes modern NCLT and proof sets as well as new in package sports cards.&nbsp; To me, collectables are things we wish we had saved but were too stupid.&nbsp; I was a kid in the fifties and spent my dimes on baseball cards and comic books.&nbsp; I chewed the gum.&nbsp; The books were read; the cards were played with and passed around among friends with grubby hands.&nbsp; A Mickey Mantle was more likely to get passed around so it was more likely to get &#039;worn&#039;.&nbsp; When I went off to college my mother decided to throw out all that trash.&nbsp; That is why those things are rare today.&nbsp; My mother did not throw out my coins.&nbsp; That is why they are common.&nbsp; When I needed money, my mother bought my coins at face value (she had no use for the ancients) but saved them because silver was rising.&nbsp; I got them back when she passed.&nbsp; I sold the ancients to Joel Malter in 1974.&nbsp; He did not give them back.&nbsp; Collectables values are based on people, and their mothers, making poor choices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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