Grade VS Eye Appeal VS Value which is most important ?

When it comes to coins, what’s most important to you ?

Coming from the currency side of things
I learned that grade doesn’t always mesh
with value and the eye appeal a perfect
example is A/U graded vs M/S graded
in currency a 60, 62, 63 and 65,s
have terrible centering issues, but
are the worth more ? I have found
similar circumstances in M/S coins
where the eye appeal is all chopped
up as where an A/U coin displays less
destruction.

So what’s your opinion ?

 

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Eye appeal to me is the most important and have tendency to favor AU in slabs. In my opinion frequently slabbed Peace Dollars can look really bad compared to nice BUs. The cost value is not always the most important.

 

Same here.

 

You're all market graders.

 

That all depends on the coin.

 

With each coin I buy, I have to think of how easy it will be to sell in the future. Pretty coins with nice eye appeal will be easy to sell when the day comes. Price has to be close to the value for the grade but I'll stretch for the right coin.

 

Bullion Investing forum seems like an odd place for this thread

 

Eye appeal is paramount for me. I've seen way too many slabbed mint state coins that are down right ugly. Buy the coin and not the slab.......

 

Shoot, I feel like a fish out of water......

 

Eye appeal of course comes 1st Then Price and LAST Grade..

 

So buffalos and eagles aren't coins and dont have grades ? this covers the entire
spectrum also including double eagles and saints.

 

A more detailed explanation and maybe more easier to understand and kind of the point I am trying to make generally an A/U grade is less expensive (Value) then
say an M/S coin like a 60-63 very banged up ! in comparison to an A/U 55, 58
been looking at a lot of coins lately, looking for an 1881-S but the Pickens are
pretty slim, for you historians out there do you know the significance of that
year ?

 

Many people don't consider them coins with any numismatic value.
And if you're collecting them with consideration for their grade, I would say it's not really bullion investing. Paying extra money for an MS70 is coin collecting, not bullion investing.
And pre-33 gold is a different category altogether than modern bullion coins.

Edit. I wasn't trying to start an off-topic debate. I should have just been more direct and asked if there was a particular reason you put this in bullion investing.

 

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1881 s... what.. not morgan... they more then plentiful and one of the cheapest dates in high grades...

 

Garfield was assassinated in 1881

 

Eye appeal for me!! but because the coin market has been tainted with fakes, copies and inflation. I love when people say “sell it on eBay” … there is no set price for anything! It’s just a way for sellers to say,” well eBay is getting this, so that must mean I can too”..