Most certainly!
The most disruptive instance of this has to be in the football world. HOFer Bert Bell's autograph used to be quite sought after. His son later started selling checks. It turned out that the family had so many that they could now be used as football-themed wallpaper! It's difficult to imagine a time when Bell's autograph wasn't common.
Then, you have the Bizarro version of the story: one of the rarest HOF checks is none other than Bob Feller! For a man who would sign and sell his firstborn if there was a crisp Abe Lincoln in it for him, he stubbornly refused to part with a single check! This clearly had to be due to security concerns, or else we'd have seen thousands on the market.
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