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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PlanoSteve, post: 24714617, member: 91609&quot;]Davie, first, welcome to CT.</p><p>These 2 options are not mutually exclusive. If we have 1 million collectors on CT (OK, that may be a slight over reach), then there are 1 million different collections; and you can bet that the majority of them include both aesthetically pleasing and historically significant specimens.&nbsp; But each collection will include the specimens that are <b><i>particular &amp; important to that specific collector</i></b>. (...including ancients.)</p><p><br /></p><p>To put it another way, I have friends who, whenever they buy or build a new home, they hire an interior decorator to tell them what they are supposed to like.&nbsp; Don&#039;t be that person.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have coins which I feel have a very high probability were in the hands of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, &amp; such (at least that&#039;s what I&#039;m going with...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) as well as the best specimen I could afford for its kind (like several graded 1909 S vdb&#039;s).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s your collection, make sure it pleases you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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