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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1761491, member: 19463&quot;]This is a major factor with my collection.&nbsp; It is not that I prefer faulty coins but that a coin that looks this good despite some scrapes, scratches, cracks and, perhaps, less than popular dark toning is likely to sell for a fraction of the price of an FDC example.&nbsp; In the case of this coin, I&#039;d say, judging from auction realizations I&#039;ve seen, these faults lowered the value of the coin by several hundred dollars or, to put it another way, the price of the total of all 20 coins I bought in July.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know there are many that would prefer one $500 coin to 20 coins totaling $500 but I&#039;m not in that league.&nbsp; When my heirs sell the coins, they won&#039;t get as much as they would have for the single FDC but that is their problem.&nbsp; My problem remains how to avoid buying duplicates (2 out of the 20 this time and I had my catalog and photos with me!).&nbsp; That is my problem.&nbsp; Senility is no fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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