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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1637368, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with medoraman.&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry some condition centered collectors look down their noses at those who make room in our hearts for coins under MS65 but that is just the nature of the hobby.&nbsp; The secret is knowing when a coin is exceptional and when a coin is to be found by the handful so you can afford to be selective in either price or condition.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you only want coins of the highest grade, you will ocassionally pass on the only example of a coin you will ever see.&nbsp; That will not bother you as much as it might bother me.&nbsp; The trick is knowing the market well enough to know when to raise and when to fold.&nbsp; I&#039;m still learning this craft.&nbsp; That also means that I have paid $300 for a coin you would pass at $30 and I would pass your selections simply because the coins do not fit my idea of something I need to own.&nbsp; That is the biggest single difference in collecting ancients and moderns.&nbsp; Modern collectors have the benefit of catalogs with easy to follow price structures based on prior sales.&nbsp; Ancient collectors sometimes need to decide if the best available or only available is good enough.&nbsp; I am not a bottom feeder when I buy a coin like the one medoraman has been seeking for a decade; I am a realist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Let me attach a few photos showing coins I bought that you would not have.&nbsp; Each is, it happens, either the best I have seen, the only I have seen or something I can live with until I get really lucky and find another.&nbsp; It is the hobby as I practice it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]235006.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]235007.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]235008.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]235009.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]235010.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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