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Message:: [QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 4578232, member: 90666"]These two pages from my working notes, showing my late Octavians, may interest collectors as an indicator of how I collect. Yes it is mostly about old collections and provenances. From top, we have- Sotheby's 1995- Huntington (who stopped collecting 1908)- Leu 1980- NFA 1988, also plate coin Sear Imperators- NAC 2004. This century but very old toning and rare Aegypto Capta type- cistophorus deacquisitioned as I found nothing- CNG 2001 but I understand it came from NAC prior. An aureus so some compromise- Huntington 2nd page- Haeberlin, Cahn 1932- nothing before 2010 so this will likely go- VJE Ryan Glendining 1952- Trau family probably since mid 19th c, ex Hess 1935- Huntington - newly acquired (Mars/Shield) large flan and old deep toning so the hunt starts - President John Quincy Adams- Hoskier, Stacks 1917,  Hamburger 1932 and Dr. Nicolas Kampann 1972 There are no quality compromises - these are all huge flan well struck pieces usually with perfect surfaces tho some are more worn than some high end collectors want. But you buy what you want to collect and these sort of coins reflect what 19th century collectors thought best quality with an emphasis on large flans and good surfaces and less emphasis on wear. I have about 600 other coins akin to these [ATTACH=full]1133625[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1133626[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]