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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

To answer the first part of your inquiry: I agree that strip cards and Exhibits offer a player value per dollar which is hard to beat.

And certainly past performance is no indicator of future appreciation, but here is what has happened according to Becketts:
(average common)
Vg - Ex

1979 -

W517 = $8.50
T204 = $29.00
R305 = $6.00
Exhibit 4 in 1 = $9.00
N28 = $20.00
E145 = $10.00
e91 = $4.50
e98 = $9.00
e100 = $18.00
e121 = $5.00
e210 = $5.00

Admittedly the hobby community considers itself a lot better informed now; and current prices reflect a realistic view of the hobby, much as was the thinking in 1979. But I wonder how informed our current knowledge will seem in another thirty (30) years.