badon: nubbins`: Wow, those Icheon ceramics are amazing. Check this one out: http://www.jstudentboard.com/reporter/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JSR_Nov23_01_CERAMICS1.jpg

badon: nubbins`: Check this out, this is typical of a relatively unknown coin that can pop in value really quickly: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574935034&toolid=10001&campid=5336732290&customid=&icep_item=201226509197&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg

badon: They get mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_sons_of_the_dragon

badon: mircea_popescu: You're also too sophisticated for that kind of thinking (you're in bitcoin chans, afterall...)

badon: mircea_popescu: Beware big gold, you can lose a lot of money on it.

badon: mircea_popescu: Not true.

badon: mircea_popescu: It's difficult to predict which coins will be valuable, but I'm literally writing the book on the subject.

badon: The high metal value coins are to be avoided. Perfect example: https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/2npm32/somebody_just_made_an_easy_5k_on_ebay/

badon: nubbins`: I'll repaste them, one sec. I started keeping a list of examples based on mircea_popescu questions.

badon: Like mircea_popescu said, "you're getting some traction"

badon: mircea_popescu: Just how to register with it.

badon: mircea_popescu: Can you tell me about this "wot" thing that does voicing in here?

badon: mircea_popescu: It's happened before.

badon: mircea_popescu: I have a lot of enemies at the china-mint.info forum. They have tried to find fault, so ask them if I delete my own posts.

badon: mircea_popescu: No, what is that?

badon: mircea_popescu: That's when the discussion group was founded. I'm not sure how far back my articles go. At least to 2009, for articles that are still online on the SMF forum site.

badon: mircea_popescu: The silver chart is eluding me. You can see a review of my predictions for 2014, dating back to 2012, here: https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?topic=5632.msg37706#msg37706

badon: mircea_popescu: I call my shots publicly. Check my track record at LBC. No financial analyst in any market ever in the history of ever has been as accurate as I am.

badon: mircea_popescu: The lists are sortable by land area and population.

badon: mircea_popescu: No, I'm talking about in general, historically, not only now.

badon: mircea_popescu: That's an excellent example of why age and rarity alone are not good determinations of value, nor investment potential.

badon: mircea_popescu: You are correct in your impression, to a degree.

badon: mircea_popescu: Mintages of 500'000 are considered unusually small.

badon: mircea_popescu: 100 coins produced.

badon: mircea_popescu: Coins from China with a mintage of 100 can be bought for under $200 if you're lucky. The same coin in a mature numismatic market could sell for millions of dollars.

badon: mircea_popescu: Yes, those would be trackable.

badon: mircea_popescu: That's also why the market is so reliably profitable.

badon: mircea_popescu: It is a challenge, truth be told, that's why the CC is so handy.

badon: mircea_popescu, punkman: Have you heard of "the badon effect"?

badon: mircea_popescu: Anyway, did you see the simple research example? It's basically checking past sales prices, but the power of the CC allows you to count the number of specimen appearances on the market to determine rarity. Ordinary price guides would just show a bunch of sales, with no epiphany that all those sales are actually only the same 2 coin specimens over and over. The number of sales alone would mislead you into thinking the

badon: mircea_popescu: You haven't seen anything yet. We use SMF at the CC forum as a bug tracking system.

badon: mircea_popescu: Yes, I love SMF.

badon: mircea_popescu: No, it's very tame business discussion group - basically my personal hobby/blog site.

badon: mircea_popescu: Here's a real world research excursion I embarked on: https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?topic=5632.msg38430#msg38430

badon: mircea_popescu: Haha, no.

badon: mircea_popescu: Hmm, OK, let me think for a bit about that. Maybe you could read the Fundly description?

badon: mircea_popescu: I used my silver (and palladium, etc) profits to fund investments in rare modern Chinese coins, which I'm still doing.

badon: mircea_popescu: It's sort of a comprehensive market database. It contains lots of fine-grained data, and it's also able to give a more general overview.

badon: mircea_popescu: I was investing in silver when Bitcoin was $0.25.

badon: mircea_popescu: Me? I'm badon.

badon: hi mircea_popescu