If they are selling for $1000+ on sale sites, or are in auctions, what makes you think you could just go buy one "cheap"? They haven't made any new ones in about 100 years, and there were never very many of them to begin with (mainly issued to NCOs and officers). So, rare seldom equals cheap.
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