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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skippy Topaz, post: 7387428, member: 76224&quot;]Kinda late to the party but these coins only just recently appeared on my radar and I like collecting stuff like this (like exonumia and other odds and ends) and I think most of the replies from “collectors” that are not actually “collectors”.. they are “investors” masquerading as “collectors”.. </p><p><br /></p><p>A true collector collects stuff they like, regardless of whether it will ever go up in value, that’s not why they collect… it could be bottle caps, or matchbooks or whatever but almost 90% of all replies on Coin Talk are “condition is everything” and “this is junk because it won’t go up in value” and on and on… these replies are conflating “collecting” and “investing” they’re not the same thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just because you have had enough of collecting something, doesn’t make it worthless. Value to you might be monetary, value to others might be the enjoyment they get from admiring and learning the history behind the coin... and no one is forcing you to buy it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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