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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 12295, member: 57463"]Tsk, tsk...  Many perhaps "mainstream" collectors of US Coins could suffer the same sleight when you consider the objective fact that up to two millions of unnecessary Morgan Dollars were struck each month and fully one-third of them remained Uncirculated for lack of use.  Thus, the coin that is perhaps Everyone's Favorite Eye-Knocker is an overpriced bauble with no numismatic value.  The $20 Saint Gaudens is also flawed, a knock-off design by a politically-connected classicist who cribbed his inspiration from a newly-excavated Greek statue.  The Fantastic 1804 Dollar is the title of a book by Ken Bressett and Eric P. Newman, presidents of the ANA and ANS respectively.  But for them and the auction catalogs upon which their Major Tout rests, the 1804 Dollars would be mere novodels.  As it is only five of them are that real.  The others are fakes -- and everyone knows it. The point of the above is NOT to denigrate other collectors but to show only that _ANY_ collectible (and collector) can be subjected to highbrow abuse.  Therefore, it takes some practice to see the worthless junk that other fools pursue as a new opportunity to be pursued yourself. I am sure that you appreciate the hard work that Q. DAVID BOWERS has done for the hobby.  Perhaps you know of his book, THE WATERFORD WATER CURE which was inspired by a counterstamped coin. Michael[/QUOTE]