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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 451100, member: 112&quot;]Rusty there have always been and will always be people who like blast white and those who like toned. There really is only one thing that changes what is popular at any given point in time - and that&#039;s exposure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back before the days of the internet</p><p>exposure was limited to coin mags and that&#039;s about it. Not really a very effective method considering the subscription levels. Coin World is and long has been the largest by far with 100k subscribers. The next closest only has about 30k subscribers. And years ago those numbers were smaller. And none of the pics were in color. So back then people just decided on what they liked by seeing it in person. And not very many people ever got to see a wide variety of coins in person.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in the &#039;90s along comes the internet and all of a sudden everybody can see things they&#039;d never even heard of before. And exposure explodes like a wildfire. And this exposure creates a new phenomena - the Jones syndrome. Because all of a sudden thousands of collectors get to see what everybody else has, they get to see what everybody else thinks is cool and they get to see all of it in full balzing color. And I was even one of those people. Because not too many years ago, I didn&#039;t care for toned coins either. But then I got to know this guy that hides behind a green curtain and he started showing me all his toned coins. And I became a believer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody who has visited coin forums for more than just a year or two has seen this happen. They&#039;ve watched others that would normally never give a second look to a particular coin all of sudden become completely enamored with it. Thinking that they just have to have one so that they can post pics of THEIR coin and have everybody go ooooo and ahhhhhh and say how cool it is, how nice it is, how great it would be to own such a coin, and what a great find they made.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is completely normal, it is how people are. I like it, you like it, everybody likes it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. But it changes things. It changes what is popular. It causes prices to go up because with popularity comes increased demand and with increased demand comes increased prices. And rational thought goes out the window - for a time. But it comes raging back when something new comes along. And then the cycle starts all over again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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