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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1896904, member: 19065&quot;]I understand, and I know you&#039;re flying high on a rush from a recent financial boon attributed to a hobby you know, respect and enjoy, but the values are not sustainable and only blows values of the coin out of proportion. Seeing so many dollar signs makes people do things and think things they wouldn&#039;t normally. I know you desperately want to share the enthusiasm for successfully flipping these coins for the amounts you and others have, but the reality is most collectors will never realize the same returns you and a select few did due to the release of the coins at the show and some arbitrary labels placed in plastic holders. It reduces the quality of your posts to bragging and that&#039;s rather telling of how this sort of thing does more harm to the overall collecting hobby than good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Acquiring new coins is no longer as equal as it was prior to 2013 when the Mint started this little PR event gimmick, allowing people to get their coins on release day while others are made to wait for orders to be fulfilled for weeks or even months in some cases. The Mint knows there&#039;s demand and seldom have the inventory ready to ship in a timely manner to eager and loyal customers. If they can prepare for a coin show then they can have quantities minted for mail order within a week of taking orders... instead, people are getting bags over-nighted to them with no coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps if coin show attendees were allowed to place orders at the Mint booth and receive their coins later in the mail the way online orders and phone orders are handled, it would be a more fair system with a less skewed initial aftermarket. Because of it TPGs have instantly seized on the opportunity to quickly make money off instant certification of coins, bypassing their much more lauded process of carefully inspecting, tracking and evaluating coins, only now to almost blindly attach labels that have nothing to do with the coin. It&#039;s unfortunate to see many duped into accepting this in the hobby over the quality of the actual coin and process of evaluation, which for most spent very little time in anyone&#039;s hands, let alone under the gaze of the experts evaluating them, before being encapsulated and traded (especially for a coin with totally new specifications, lest the Mint has been allowing graders advanced access to these coins to prepare for these events).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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