Fat Freddy
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I'm with you guys on a number of things. Buying low and selling high (when you can pull it off) is great. Those Mongolian wildlife coins are truly artistic, beautiful pieces of metalworking+coin-making art, and so are a number of the more recent "me too" imitations of the original Mongolian series idea and examples. The odds are (or at least should be) that hopefully, the glass chips on these coins should never get damaged or fall out.
If those artistic, beautiful, sculpture-quality coins (Mongolian wildlife series and others) didn't have those damn glass chips, I'd collect them instead of stacking the humdrum stuff that I do stack.
But... Those glued-on glass chips spook me. I think they're too potentially damageable, my trust in the glue is limited and overall this whole new fashion rage of glued-on glass chips carries a level of risk that I'm not willing to accept. I wish the chips were polycarbonate plastic because it's practically indestructible. Unfortunately, it has no snob appeal.
I wonder whether in 20 or 30 years these glass chip coins will be worth a fortune because they were the start of the New World Order in coin-making or whether they'll be a short-lived, long-dead flash-in-the-pan historical oddity like the tailfins on a 1959 Cadillac (which today can cost anywhere from under $10K to over $100K).
Whatever they turn out to be, I'm not joining this craze. You guys can have my share of this presently red-hot fashion-of-the-moment and the market it drives. Best of luck with your investments.
If those artistic, beautiful, sculpture-quality coins (Mongolian wildlife series and others) didn't have those damn glass chips, I'd collect them instead of stacking the humdrum stuff that I do stack.
But... Those glued-on glass chips spook me. I think they're too potentially damageable, my trust in the glue is limited and overall this whole new fashion rage of glued-on glass chips carries a level of risk that I'm not willing to accept. I wish the chips were polycarbonate plastic because it's practically indestructible. Unfortunately, it has no snob appeal.
I wonder whether in 20 or 30 years these glass chip coins will be worth a fortune because they were the start of the New World Order in coin-making or whether they'll be a short-lived, long-dead flash-in-the-pan historical oddity like the tailfins on a 1959 Cadillac (which today can cost anywhere from under $10K to over $100K).
Whatever they turn out to be, I'm not joining this craze. You guys can have my share of this presently red-hot fashion-of-the-moment and the market it drives. Best of luck with your investments.
I know many of you don't like this coin, even my wife said "it is ugly" :/