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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8262550, member: 19463"]It is too soon to know if I will die of Covid but it seems certain that my hobby is past the point of being saved by a respirator.  I do wonder how the current Russian/Ukraine situation will effect the coin market or even the legality of it when the anti-collector crowd starts yelling 'money laundering'.  It does bother me that we have people who think $300 is a cheap coin.  Of course we see starred MS slabs with LRB's bringing that on occasion so perhaps that is the new threshold.  $300 is the new $50?  I also regret that what makes a coin worth $300 is so often beauty rather than being interesting.  Of course, both beauty and  interest is in the eye of the individual.   I went back and found the last six coins I bought 2020-22 ranging from $45 to $55 each and None are really all that attractive or close to mint state but I was happy to get them, beautiful or not.  I would not trade them for one $300 beauty even though that coin would have better profit potential. All have been posted here before complete with reasons why I got them in most cases.[ATTACH=full]1457403[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1457421[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1457422[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1457423[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1457424[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1457425[/ATTACH] Maybe I need to rephotograph them and make them pretty?[/QUOTE]