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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2491321, member: 19463&quot;]Most of us prefer nicer coins to less nice coins.&nbsp; The question is how much more does each bit nicer add to the cash value.&nbsp; To me, better coins are only better as they add to what I see as beauty or history.&nbsp; A coin missing detail is not as beautiful or historical but the amount of loss between VF and EF in wear is not as much as the difference between off center, poorly struck or poorly colored.&nbsp; This is just my opinion.&nbsp; US slabs enable owners to value differences that require a microscope or special training to see and have led to huge differences in price for inconsequential differences in beauty or information.&nbsp; It would be perfectly possible for TPG operators to rate ancients according to real &#039;value added&#039; features like eye appeal or legibility rather than microscopic or imagined differences that have taken over the modern market.&nbsp; Will they?&nbsp; Most of the posts here in the ancient section hype coins for their condition rather than their interest or other features Sallent mentioned.&nbsp; If we who bemoan their existence value our coins for their market value first, how can we complain when the TPG operators follow our lead?&nbsp;&nbsp; What is the most important feature you look for in a coin?&nbsp; If you said grade or value, you are the problem.&nbsp; When I pay more for higher grade, lower interest coins.&nbsp; I am the problem,too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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