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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 363439, member: 4626&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t pay extra even if it did.&nbsp; Not knocking those who are willing to pay extra because a given item has some special pedigree, like the guitar owned by Elvis for example, but when it comes to coins, I just don&#039;t care whether or not it came from a famous shipwreck, was owned by a famous person, or came from some famous collection.&nbsp; Do you think Eliasberg really cared where the coins he put in his collection came from?&nbsp; So why should I care if a given coin came from his personal collection?&nbsp; It&#039;s still the same coin if it didn&#039;t, isn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>I love the &quot;shipwrech effect&quot; designation, it&#039;s probably the most succesful scam the TPGs came up with, a way to get people to pay premiums for coins that are in <i>worse</i> condition than those without it!&nbsp; An even better scam than &quot;first strike&quot; which at least alleges the coins are in <i>better</i> condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin&#039;s a coin, I couldn&#039;t possibly care less where it came from.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t magically make it a better coin than any other given coin of the same type and condition as far as I&#039;m concerned.&nbsp; Paying extra for some special provenance is just a waste of money in my firm opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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