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Originally Posted by benjulmag
As time went on, Rosen's auctions went from being THE event in the hobby to just another run-in-the-mill auction, a far distance removed from the top AHs. I always regarded that as a certain poetic justice for his crooked ways.
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I don't know, I think he was probably perfectly happy sitting at the entrance to shows, dealing out $100 bills to the poor saps who walked in with boxes of stuff and fell prey to his siren song, then walking around the room flipping his acquisitions to other dealers. That, and the notoriety from his books and media appearances to keep his ego stoked. Say what you will about the clownish and churlish "Mr. Mint," the guy did it his way all the way to the bank, and I doubt if trying to turn his act into an actual organization to compete with the likes of Mastro, Leland's, Robert Edwards, etc., would have done anything but unnecessarily complicate his existence, and he was smart enough to realize it.