The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 27, July 6, 2003, Article 18

NEXT STEP IN COIN TRADING?

  Now that slabs enable collectors to own a coin without
  having to bother touching or looking at it directly, perhaps
  the next step is owning coins without the bother of actually
  possessing them.  The sports card world shows how the
  third-party trend can be taken to extremes.  A recent
  article in Wired magazine (known for publishing spoofs,
  by the way) describes an online trading site for cards
  designed by the Topps card company.

  "Mike Clark owns $30,000 worth of special-edition baseball
  and football cards. And he's never seen a single one of them.
  That's because these cards aren't the kind you can pick up in
  foil packs at a hobby shop. They're sold like stocks, more or
  less, on an online trading floor designed by the Topps card
  company and run by eBay. And while Clark and his fellow
  collectors are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for the right
  to call the rarest of these specimens their own, the cards
  themselves remain, for the most part, sealed in a climate-
  controlled warehouse in Delaware."

  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59393,00.html
http://www.etopps.com/

  Wayne Homren, Editor

	coinbooks.org Web

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization 
promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org.

To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor 
at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com

To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum