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To: mission9
the melt value is immaterial. What is material is the value established by other recoveries like the Republic or the Atocha. Collectors pay a premium over numismatic value.

It is a shell game. Collectors are aging and not being sufficiently replaced to make up for the demographic shift. The marketeers can only fleece so much stupid money at a time before people with money catch on to the game. The melt value is the bottom line. The rest is hype when there is that much available. Of course there is some stupid money to be had, so they will actualize above melt value. The smart money knows not to buy these coins at the large markups. They will come down in price as they flood the market.

17 posted on 05/20/2007 7:21:42 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (Waiting for Samson)
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To: af_vet_1981
Stupid money, smart money. People pay a million dollars for an autographed baseball. The man that owns it considers himself to be quite smart. As to melt value being true worth. You cannot eat gold, it is material vanity even as melt value. The market for collectibles is cyclical like any market, but has increased steadily over melt value commodities. Don’t you wish that you owned the first spiderman comic? That was stupid money in 1963.
20 posted on 05/20/2007 11:58:20 AM PDT by mission9 (Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
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