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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8145513, member: 19463"]There is a fact that most collectors and all investors seem to be denying. This 'quality' obsession is a fad. There have been periods in the past where collectors aspired to having as many coins as possible and it was common for a wealthy person to buy intact the entire collection of a deceased person to double his holdings. If that were the fad today, there would be a lot at the end of the new Triton sale offering the entire catalog as one lot for one advance over the total of all bids on the lots separately. Currently, most people are obsessed with unworn coins with matter such as strike, surface and style being secondary. There are a few that still want the best but place style over the others. This matches the current fashion in other art forms where a great work with a hole in it or reassembled from pieces is preferred over an intact piece of lesser style. Several of us own the two volume set of <b>Roman Coins</b> by Akerman who listed only rare and unedited coins. If a coin was easily found in the market, it did not make the book. Rarity, in 1834, was most important. There are collectors of Chinese cash that place a high value on coins that are covered with a thick layer of colored corrosion. Clean surfaced coins are 'defective' to that view. I will never know what the next fashion/fad will be. Will the emphasis return to some period of the past or will there be some new consideration? Will this change come before our youngest collectors reach the end of their lives? Will a perfect coin be worth 70 times a real junker as suggested by the Sheldon Scale or with it be 7000 as today or 7 million as investors currently hope? Stamp collectors value postmarked examples of some high value denominations above mint state ones (because of the large number that were in Southern post offices at the start of the Civil War - a very special case). Will Wabi-Sabi replace Mint State fever? I doubt it but there is no telling where fads will go. In the 18th century the Apollo Belvidere was considered the greatest example of Classical sculpture; a century later it was considered to be of poor Roman copy. Napoleon stole it from the Vatican. A bit later the Louvre gave it back. Was this an early example of 'Cultural Property' or did they have better use for the space? Today, it is mostly taught as an example of changing tastes. When I was in school, Archaic was valued over Classical. Today? I don't know. I can't keep up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Collect what you like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8145513, member: 19463"]There is a fact that most collectors and all investors seem to be denying. This 'quality' obsession is a fad. There have been periods in the past where collectors aspired to having as many coins as possible and it was common for a wealthy person to buy intact the entire collection of a deceased person to double his holdings. If that were the fad today, there would be a lot at the end of the new Triton sale offering the entire catalog as one lot for one advance over the total of all bids on the lots separately. Currently, most people are obsessed with unworn coins with matter such as strike, surface and style being secondary. There are a few that still want the best but place style over the others. This matches the current fashion in other art forms where a great work with a hole in it or reassembled from pieces is preferred over an intact piece of lesser style. Several of us own the two volume set of [B]Roman Coins[/B] by Akerman who listed only rare and unedited coins. If a coin was easily found in the market, it did not make the book. Rarity, in 1834, was most important. There are collectors of Chinese cash that place a high value on coins that are covered with a thick layer of colored corrosion. Clean surfaced coins are 'defective' to that view. I will never know what the next fashion/fad will be. Will the emphasis return to some period of the past or will there be some new consideration? Will this change come before our youngest collectors reach the end of their lives? Will a perfect coin be worth 70 times a real junker as suggested by the Sheldon Scale or with it be 7000 as today or 7 million as investors currently hope? Stamp collectors value postmarked examples of some high value denominations above mint state ones (because of the large number that were in Southern post offices at the start of the Civil War - a very special case). Will Wabi-Sabi replace Mint State fever? I doubt it but there is no telling where fads will go. In the 18th century the Apollo Belvidere was considered the greatest example of Classical sculpture; a century later it was considered to be of poor Roman copy. Napoleon stole it from the Vatican. A bit later the Louvre gave it back. Was this an early example of 'Cultural Property' or did they have better use for the space? Today, it is mostly taught as an example of changing tastes. When I was in school, Archaic was valued over Classical. Today? I don't know. I can't keep up. Collect what you like.[/QUOTE]
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