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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1500686, member: 26302"]Well put. I have no problem if someone is sophisticated enough to know why he likes this piece to pay whatever he feels like, just like buying an Aston Martin or a gull wing mercedes. There is room enough for all under the coin collecting umbrella. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, for newer collectors who ONLY see color and therefor attribute bright colors with high worth, and don't know the difference between this and AT clown coins, that is the danger. Paul buying a coin like this wouldn't trouble me, a newbie buying a coin he believes is similar because its brightly colored does, since the newbie will be wasting a whole big pot of money. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Would I personally buy this? That is not the issue really, (I wouldn't be buying a gull wing or an Aston Martin either FWIW). The issue to me is everyone reading this NEEDING to know why this coin is a desirable piece, and why it is different than so many doctored pieces out there. If they don't know that they are in trouble.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1500686, member: 26302"]Well put. I have no problem if someone is sophisticated enough to know why he likes this piece to pay whatever he feels like, just like buying an Aston Martin or a gull wing mercedes. There is room enough for all under the coin collecting umbrella. However, for newer collectors who ONLY see color and therefor attribute bright colors with high worth, and don't know the difference between this and AT clown coins, that is the danger. Paul buying a coin like this wouldn't trouble me, a newbie buying a coin he believes is similar because its brightly colored does, since the newbie will be wasting a whole big pot of money. :( Would I personally buy this? That is not the issue really, (I wouldn't be buying a gull wing or an Aston Martin either FWIW). The issue to me is everyone reading this NEEDING to know why this coin is a desirable piece, and why it is different than so many doctored pieces out there. If they don't know that they are in trouble.[/QUOTE]
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