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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;flintcreek6412, post: 1838084, member: 61025&quot;]So I&#039;m back in the game after 30 years and want to get some gold I couldn&#039;t afford as a teenager.&nbsp; I find myself wavering trying to balance practicality and desire.&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems I can buy more types of coins in lower grades thus allowing me to collect more variety while keeping my &quot;investment&quot; closer to the spot price with less emphasis on the numismatic value.&nbsp; I&#039;m really drawn to the Indian $5 and $10 and obviously the St Gaudens but also want some Liberty&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet at the same time I love the beauty of MS coins even though the common dates don&#039;t have any real return on investment.&nbsp; I do like the comfort of graded slabs knowing they are legit coins and problem free.&nbsp;&nbsp; Especially when I go to my local shop to look at loose coins that I know are real, but are they problem free?&nbsp; He shows me PCGS slabs that he sent in thinking they would come back MS63 and they get &quot;detail&quot; grades for either cleaned or scratches.&nbsp; For the life of me, I can&#039;t see anything indicative of cleaning but I guess it was.&nbsp; That starts to worry me about buying loose.&nbsp; And I look at the scratches that are very small and compare to &quot;clean&quot; slabbed coins online where I see much worse scratches.&nbsp;&nbsp; These &quot;detail&quot; coins are often very nice looking but now have a label attached to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So then I start to strongly consider slabbed&nbsp; XF or AU and they are virtually non existent in common dates.&nbsp; So why don&#039;t people get lower graded gold slabbed?&nbsp; I see $85 Morgan common dates all over slabbed but not a $500-1500 gold XF or AU50 slabbed? </p><p><br /></p><p>Since I&#039;ve decided to go with more variety in gold and not high grade what&#039;s the best route to pursue?&nbsp; Buy loose from the dealer that is trusted but maybe not the best coin grader in the world? Consider &quot;genuine&quot; or &quot;detail&quot; coins even though I personally would prefer a good VF over a cleaned MS63 yet at the same time a small scratch that does detract from the overall beauty doesn&#039;t bother me?&nbsp; Or keep looking for XF or AU slabs that seem to be rare or overpriced?&nbsp; If the later, any resource to locate such coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for any help in advance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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