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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2117505, member: 19463&quot;]We err when we assume that the collection of a &#039;name&#039; collector who wrote the book on a certain series will include the finest known coins of a type.&nbsp; Some who study the coins are more interested in having a type than in waiting for years to find a perfect one.&nbsp; I knew one such author who did not make a point of upgrading types he had and worked from an unillustrated checklist that told him which coins he needed but not which ones he had in poor shape.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Still, we seem to value having the coins of the &#039;master&#039;.&nbsp; I cherish the coins I bought from the sale of Roger Bickford-Smith who was the leading student of Eastern Septimius coins at the time of his untimely death.&nbsp; My Gallienus from the John Quincy Adams is one of my least attractive coins but I keep it because of who once owned it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I only own one of the Lindgren volumes (not the right one for this) and I enjoy seeing the thousand coins in the plates but it is obvious that he collected coin for their being different and interesting but not because they were mint state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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