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Message:: [QUOTE="7Jags, post: 24620295, member: 78719"]This was in the recent postings about the ANA Convention and note that the collection, upgraded will be on view there.While a tremendous collection, it represents to me part of an issue with modern "collecting" of coins. I suppose it is only a normal evolution that as money becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands that this new era of "check collecting" (or Bankwire collecting) comes into vogue and that those with endless funds just put out buy orders for coins at any price. So in short order, we have an era of super buyers (and biased that I am, not collectors in the traditional sense). Huge collections of large value coins can be put together in months or even a few short years. Nothing to be done as it is what it is.So it could be written off as me being envious although I do not think so, and I believe it to be harmful to numismatics and collecting as a whole. If the top echelon coins are removed from attainability, mid rung collectors have little to aspire to.It is with some satisfaction that "Super Collections" such as this are blocked from filling out complete sets of the very best on occasion; sort of like rooting for the underdog. Not long ago, I was happy to see an acquaintance of mine get hold of some extremely rare and well preserved coins that blocked them of necessity from this huge conglomerate completing the "Best of" collections. Oh well, just expressing some thoughts....[/QUOTE]