You know what would make a nice set for s sports hobbiest? A 30 year run date of Silver Eagles with the respective World Series winner MLB emblem label for each year.
Personally, if someone wishes to buy a coin for the label, I feel it is their right and it is not polluting the hobby. What pollutes the hobby is folks that go about ragging on because others don't have the same tastes as them in numismatics.......
Labels for the purpose of marketing are not in any way part of numismatics.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
When the US Mint starts making officially licensed World Series Champion coins then I will be very concerned about the hobby. There have been so many special labels made I am not surprised by anything new these days and the TPG's need to make a profit for their shareholders. I do think that they might interest folks in the hobby but could have unintended consequences of making coin collecting look a bit like collecting Beanie Babies...too much 'product' for the collector base.
Personally, if someone wishes to buy a coin for the label, I feel it is their right and it is not polluting the hobby. What pollutes the hobby is folks that go about ragging on because others don't have the same tastes as them in numismatics.......
Labels for the purpose of marketing are not in any way part of numismatics.
Technically you are correct, yet we all collect coins with slabs with labels (and stickers) on them and it is all about marketing for all of them. Hence, I don't see the labels referred to in this thread any different from any others. But clearly there can be multiple views on this subject.
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Nice coins.
My offer 97 pct of melt on those bullion issues - the refiner pays me 98 pct.
You know what would make a nice set for s sports hobbiest? A 30 year run date of Silver Eagles with the respective World Series winner MLB emblem label for each year.
Labels for the purpose of marketing are not in any way part of numismatics.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
When the US Mint starts making officially licensed World Series Champion coins then I will be very concerned about the hobby. There have been so many special labels made I am not surprised by anything new these days and the TPG's need to make a profit for their shareholders. I do think that they might interest folks in the hobby but could have unintended consequences of making coin collecting look a bit like collecting Beanie Babies...too much 'product' for the collector base.
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Technically you are correct, yet we all collect coins with slabs with labels (and stickers) on them and it is all about marketing for all of them. Hence, I don't see the labels referred to in this thread any different from any others. But clearly there can be multiple views on this subject.
Best, SH