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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 7846097, member: 111387&quot;]Cha-ching!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Count me as one that enjoys reading this.&nbsp; Part of the fun of collecting for me is the concept of trading up.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a pre-teenager in the mid &#039;80s, I loved trading the common cards of the day for the older vintage players.&nbsp; &quot;Sure, I&#039;ll trade multiples of Dwight Gooden, Jose Canseco, Daryl Strawberry, Don Mattingly etc. for that Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax etc.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the baseball (sports)card industry flubbed at some point, but while all of those mass-produced cards tanked; the older ones still retained some collectible value. </p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t all about the monetary value for me, I really enjoyed the style of the older cards, and also learning about the players/teams represented.&nbsp; I even made it a point to travel up to another city to a sports card convention, to have Hank Aaron personally autograph his card from my birth year --- The same year that he broke Babe Ruth&#039;s HR record.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone started an &quot;Ancient Coin Trading?&quot; thread recently. I think the logistics of trading ancient coins would be a little harder to duplicate in the same way as a bunch of kids trading cards, or marbles, or something from the lunch-pail.</p><p><br /></p><p>$9600 can buy quite a few nice coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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