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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2865835, member: 71723&quot;]I&#039;m guessing it was &quot;vanity published&quot; then? More and more, it&#039;s becoming a case of Whitman or a vanity house, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m truly sorry if this opinion offends anyone here, but I think the shameless promotion of minuscule errors and minor varieties is harmful to the hobby in the long run. Why do I say this? I bought a &quot;miscellaneous box&quot; of stuff at an auction, mostly for the &quot;beaucoup&quot; plastic coin tubes in it. Also in it was a lavishly and meticulously researched and labelled box of minor errors and varieties on Lincoln cents. Memorial years, all of them. None of the labelling was by hand. The collector used stamps and labels to mark every 2x2. The only manual marks were arrows pointing to the alleged anomaly. A single row red 2x2 file box - the eight incher, I think, packed full. It was a &quot;throw in&quot; and gotten as a freebie for empty tubes. It had basically NO VALUE. I still own it, but I have no earthly idea why.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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