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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 1806279, member: 44357&quot;]I&#039;m always surprised at how people misinterpret the suggestion to buy coins which are of good quality for the grade and type as being mutually exclusive from being a collector, and instead just &quot;investing in coins&quot; (which I presume means buying something and throwing it a box and never caring about it?) Regardless of who you are or why you collect, the purpose of my post was that quality is a very important consideration. It doesn&#039;t matter if you are buying EF coins or culls, quality for the grade and type is crucial. Of course not everyone has the same budget, but I highly doubt anyone posting on a coin forum cares only about what the coins will sell for when it comes time to sell. I look for coins with no &quot;but&quot; - I can&#039;t say to myself, &quot;This would be a perfect coin for my collection BUT it has X wrong with it&quot;. This will vary depending on who you are (some people like graffiti, some don&#039;t mind if it is off-centered) but this is exactly why I can&#039;t buy coins sight-unseen: everyone has slightly different criteria which will denote if they will/will not like a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other part of my post with wanting to buy coins which I&#039;ll be willing to hold on to for 20 years isn&#039;t related to the appreciation in value - who knows what individual types will be doing in 20 years - but rather, it&#039;s a quest for long-term consistency and buying coins which I like enough to not want to resell in the near to long term. Everything has an opportunity cost: having $6 tied up in one coin is $6 less which you have to buy the next one which may come around. I want to have a collection where I would be willing to take every piece to my grave and be proud of it along the line.</p><p><br /></p><p>To medoraman&#039;s point, if you have no ability to access coins in person and trust Frank Robinson&#039;s opinion, then that&#039;s fine, but based on the OP&#039;s line of &quot;I don&#039;t think the Gordian will stay will me long though since I already have a better example&quot;, it seems like this was a bit of a surprise and it would have saved some future effort to have waited for an example they preferred.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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