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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1505572, member: 27043&quot;]The idea of &quot;lowball coins&quot; has a certain appeal to me, but only within fairly strict &quot;conditions&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most enjoyable part of this hobby, for me, is the history of any particular coin.&nbsp; I&#039;ve mentioned before, my favorite coin is a 1912 British Penny I found, in all places, in a roll of halves while CRH.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is of no real value for any reason...what...MAYBE $2-$3 to someone?&nbsp; If that?&nbsp; It&#039;s not an error, or anything unusual or rare...it is, in fact, rather worn.</p><p><br /></p><p>But...good grief...the stories that thing could tell!&nbsp; How does a 100 yr old coin from the UK wind up in a roll of US half dollars?&nbsp; And what&#039;s the wear from?&nbsp; A child buying candy?&nbsp; Was it given to a street beggar?&nbsp; Heck...could it even have been in the pocket of a Titanic Survivor???</p><p><br /></p><p>Those stories are what fascinate me about this hobby.&nbsp; These...things....these historical artifacts we collect...they had JOBS.&nbsp; They stored value for someone, and acted as a means of exchanging that value for goods or services.</p><p><br /></p><p>The more worn they are....the more stories they could tell, as far as I&#039;m concerned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t get me wrong...many coins have beautiful designs, and in high grade or beautiful to observe and/or own.&nbsp; I&#039;m certainly not &quot;anti-MS&quot; or anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>But &quot;lowball&quot; coins...IF they&#039;re honest, original wear, from actual use in commerce...they are history.&nbsp; Since I&#039;d insist that the wear was &quot;honest and original&quot;, I&#039;d be willing in many cases to purchase a slabbed coin if the slab &quot;authenticated&quot; it as such.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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