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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3297827, member: 112"]To a degree I agree with this part. It often is what catches one's eye and provides the impetus for collecting. And it's to be expected I guess because money is something that does catch one's eye. Of course most of the news articles and stories you read are about the scarce, rare, or higher dollar coins because let's face it - low dollar coins just aint news. They don't make headlines. But the thing that these articles that do make the news don't tell you is just how rare it is for something like to happen ! For every one that does happen there's millions that don't ! So some folks get the wrong idea and think they can too can strike it rich. In a way it's kinda like the gold fever of the days of old - they came by the thousands but only a few had any success to speak of. But it does do one thing and does it well, it piques an interest, get's people started down a path. Not many perhaps but enough to matter. And in a way I kind of used to something similar myself by carrying a 1 oz gold coin in my pocket every day - for years on end. Those coins provided the spark that brought more than few into the hobby - simply by me having them in my pocket and showing them to people. In the end it's all advertising, just different forms of it. But advertising works - that much cannot be denied.[/QUOTE]