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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1839547, member: 57495&quot;]I still had your original post open on another screen.&nbsp; I hope you don&#039;t mind me reproducing it, as I think the other words are worth reading too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doug said : &quot;When I started my web page in 1997 I was of the belief that there were too many people who believed that ancient coins were a hobby only available to the rich. I hope my pages have shown that there can be fun for the rest of us. When I was young literally millions of my peers got great enjoyment out of filling penny boards with coins from circulation. None of those coins were MS69 but we did not know then that a coin had to be to be interesting. The minimum cost of admission to the hobby has risen but it would be possible to enjoy an assemblage of nothing over $10 per coin. $10,000 coins are prettier.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Impossible to Grade page like my earlier Grading pages were intended to point out and attach terms to situations a &#039;less than perfect&#039; collector might encounter and to suggest that there might be some interest in imperfect coins. I still have not warmed up to coins butchered in the last decade by amateur cleaning efforts but I can be pretty forgiving of most &#039;natural&#039; things that happened in a couple thousand years that a coin waited before entering my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will be anxious to see your crocodile and hope the two of you will be happy together.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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