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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cascade, post: 2358802, member: 75984&quot;]Doug or [USER=66]@Conder101[/USER] explained it a while ago. In brief, I think it had to do with a wall street investment play. After slabs came out pcgs was really touting the investable nature of tpg slabbed coins then wall street got on board and created a bubble that only lasted a couple years in the late 80s and crashed hard</p><p><br /></p><p>The hunt brothers were billionaires that in the late 70s / early 80s tried to corner the market and buy every bit of silver they could to set the price. It was an epic failure that almost bankrupted them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s amazing that with all that volitility in the 80s that coin collecting really started taking off in the 90s. And exploded in the early 2000s. Thank god for al gore creating the Internet <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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