It seems like most members of the coin collecting hobby are anal about condition. A single microscopic scratch is enough for them not to buy the coin. Don't get me wrong - I love a nice shiny uncirculated coin, but I also dig coins with patina. Especially silver coins with patina. It gives them character and a rugged beauty. What about you? Am I the only one who likes circulated but in good condition coins? It makes the hobby a lot cheaper if you like circulated coins.
I'm very vocal about keeping an old coin's natural appearance and not removing what age has put on it.
I think the OP was just making a point that some collectors are anal about appearance of coins that determines whether they buy or not.
Well, his comparison is not "on point". A scratched, or otherwise damaged, coin has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not someone likes or doesn't like a circulated coin with or without patina. Chris
I happen to love patina, whether its on u.s. coins or my world, ancients, it gives the coins character & charm. Sometimes patina can be unattractive but most of the time it is. I have many ancients with a nice green, thick patina & some a dark grey to near black in tone, showing they have been untouched by dips and so on.
The OP has stated in another thread, he likes all shiney coins to the point he uses grill cleaner to clean the dirty ones. Obviously, what patina there was, is no more. I therefor begin to wonder about his commitment to have good condition coins. Unless any shiney coin fits into this description, even the ones' brightened by grill cleaner, it doesn't appear to be all that high a priority.
I like any coin any condition as long as it was not cleaned - too badly. Usually, I skip problem coins, unless I find what I need at an affordable price for me for the particular coin I am buying. For example, I bought a 1910 S Barber half. The original price on it was 185.00. Liberty has a noticeable scratch going across her chin, out onto the field of the coin. Most would pass this Barber up, but other than the scratch, it was all original, a solid XF in my opinion, and that's what I bought it as. I didn't pay the 185.00 price btw. The coin looks nicer in hand, this is a scan.
That's really a scan? It looks like a photo. Regardless, that coin certainly looks like it was lightened up quite a bit in addition to the scratch.
