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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 6416549, member: 31286&quot;]There was more to this statement from earlier in this thread than I quoted but it is an interesting issue.&nbsp; I suppose it depends on what you enjoy about collecting and where your interests lie.&nbsp; More than likely, actually I know for a fact that I have spent enough money on coins of all sorts from the early part of the 19th century that I could have obtained at least one super high quality High Relief instead.&nbsp; But my interests are more in variety - not excluding quality by any means -&nbsp; but then of course quality is somewhat subjective.&nbsp; I enjoy reviewing the interesting combinations of coins I collect - for example my 1840 mint set that is almost 80% complete. I also have some Carson City pieces and civil war era coins.&nbsp; What I like about them are the varieties, the differences, the individual history behind the issues.&nbsp; Some, like the the 1840(O) half dollar have interesting stories about how they were discovered as varieties - with some serious detective work involved. It&#039;s a pretty rare coin but not extremely expensive.&nbsp; They just don&#039;t come up often.&nbsp; Far less than HR DE&#039;s for sure.&nbsp; Would I trade, lets say $30,000 worth of nice, worthy collector grade circulated coins that are almost 200 years old for one beautiful piece that is only a little more than 100 years old and is actually not all that rare? - just highly desirable?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know?&nbsp; I can look at the 50 or so interesting coins that I have (most in a bank vault, so it&#039;s pictures of course) with varieties of many dominations - and reflect on where they&#039;ve been, what the history behind them is, how and when they came to me - and it never fails to interest - even at times amuse me.&nbsp; But if I had one spectacular coin?&nbsp; hmm ....&nbsp; I don&#039;t know, but I think I might get tired of it.&nbsp; Maybe.....&nbsp; even bored.&nbsp; - I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Seems more like a run of the mill investment to me. I have enough, or at least I hope I do - of those.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now owning a collection of rare DE&#039;s that included a High Relief DE - well ok. I could find that interesting for sure.&nbsp; But unfortunately that is not going to be happening anytime soon, so .....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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