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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1566259, member: 41665&quot;]To deny any sense of trend or outlook formed in the last decade or so, you cannot compare &#039;how it was in the 1980s&#039; with how it is today. Those are two TOTALLY DIFFERENT worlds. I don&#039;t see trend changing anytime soon - things certainly aren&#039;t going back to the way they were in 1989. Or 1999. Before the age of the internet, people had generally very poor access to information. A retired market maker for Johnson-Matthey &amp; the Bank of England told me that back in the mid-1970s, there were only a dozen or so experts alive who actually KNEW what the Price of Oil was at any given moment.&nbsp; I was shocked to hear that. As you well know, that sort of &#039;knowledge&#039; is instantaneous and almost universal today: we can <i>barely imagine </i>it was not always so. </p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, data-access to all kinds of other niche markets has exploded across our screens &amp; consciousness. Simply put: people can <i>know </i>what things cost, in real time. eBay blasted apart the coin dealers&#039; mystification - now you CAN find out what it&#039;s worth on the world mkt. And it&#039;s not just retail collectibles - global commodities are sold retail at the thinnest margins in history. Consider that in the 1800&#039;s, refined Platinum typically cost 60-150% over Spot, often higher; in 2010 you could buy 10 oz. in Boston for 1% premium over Spot. That kind of &#039;retail discount&#039; never happpened before, in the history of any currency. YES times really have changed, it is phenomenal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Algos can tell us where most collectible coin prices are heading, that really isn&#039;t rocket-science anymore. I am very curious at the suggestion that &quot;a complete set of ASE are available at a minor premium over melt&quot; - that tends to confirm my supposition that Modern US Silver Coin Value is actually racing towards scrap. But I doubt it, yet. What&#039;s a &quot;minor premium&quot; anyway?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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