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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2012933, member: 19463&quot;]I suppose I could just be suffering from the longing for the &#039;good old days&#039; common to old fools but I really think that today&#039;s market includes a great deal more coins with poor surfaces than did the coins I was offered in my earlier days in the hobby.&nbsp; We see rough survivors of bulk cleaning amateurs and even big name dealers who sell mostly freshly cleaned material.&nbsp; I get the idea that a small percentage of coins offered have actually done time in a private collection.&nbsp; They may have made the rounds of a dozen dealers but we just don&#039;t see as many old collection coins as I recall before the popularization of metal detectors.&nbsp; We have plenty of people willing to pay for &#039;high grade&#039; coins with bad or doctored surfaces so it should be no surprise that so many of our look 2000 years old (or 2 weeks, depending on where you get them).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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