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Message:: [QUOTE="Cherd, post: 24620333, member: 24754"]Regardless of the buying patterns at the top, this has always been and will always be the case. If mid-rung collectors are able to obtain top echelon collectables, then that means that there is not much of a market for that particular collectable (thankfully, this tends not to be the case with coins). I can see making an argument about whether brute-force purchasing of "collections" by throwing infinite funds at the market over the course of a few months would not qualify as some definition of a "Collector"......but that is just a matter of degrees and opinion. The activities of these types of buyers have very little direct impact on 99.9% of the rest of us. There are, however, some benefits to their behavior. For instance, the community as a whole actually get the opportunity to view the "Best of the Best" items of their dreams via public exhibitions as described above. If these coins were distributed throughout a large number of lesser collections, then this would not be possible.[/QUOTE]