Too many people with extra New Point Lomas to sell means the price is more 'reasonable'. 950 New Point Lomas -- but how many per 'collector families'? If you and your non-collector spouse attended, you probably got 4. Maybe a family kid or two were also registered just so you (the collector) could buy 4 more NPLs @$70.

Maybe 300 collectors bought 950 pieces? (Just a guess). So even if each collector held back one extra for future growth -- besides the one in their curio -- there would be 350 available from 300 sellers.

Some sold a few extras right away. The going price (or trade value) for NPLs at the reunion was about $400-$450. A few weeks later, some were selling for $1,200. When the word got out that they were selling that high, (coinciding with the rise of ebay), those with extras decided a 'profit' of just a few hundred dollars would be good and the market has dropped down to about $450 again.

I expect when the 2001 Reunion rolls around, we'll see another surge in NPL prices as people will want the 'hat-trick' of all three Reunion Exclusives.

As the 'extras' get pulled out of closets and put up for sale, the NPL price will rise.

With Coquille #111, production got cut off. The product line was new. There were few 'dedicated' collectors. There were very few willing to speculate and buy up all the CH1, Burrows OR (or Burrows WA), Split Rock MI, and Coquille River pieces. (Some, just not many.)

The remainder of the Coquille River pieces were bought up by individual collectors -- and probably some by locals or tourists. That means few 'extras' were in the hands of collectors willing to sell.

So it's just supply and demand working the way it does. The supply of willing sellers is higher for NPL thus a lower price.