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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4061252, member: 85693"]An interesting thread. For the past five years or so, after getting back into ancients in a big (but bottom-feeding) way, I find my attitudes towards what I "git" to be evolving. I'm not thinking much like a numismatist these days - condition and grade do not seem to be much of a factor. Which is another way of saying from an "investment" standpoint, my collection is a disaster...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In Valentinian's OP, I prefer the one he got over the really nice expensive one. I think the lettering's better, the color's better, and I even like the broken-nosed Joe Palooka portrait better. But I also like the wear - something about the wear on an ancient coin adds to its appeal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I pretty much feel the same way about the other coins posted so far in this thread - interesting, lived-in, lovely coins of less-than-stellar grade. They're wonderful. </p><p><br /></p><p>All a matter of taste, of course. Or I'm just justifying my own bottom-feeding, low-grade proclivities. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever it is, there is something about a big old batch of scruffy Byzantines that gets me excited, more than a FDC that costs more than my last three cars combined. A recent lot for cheap: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4061252, member: 85693"]An interesting thread. For the past five years or so, after getting back into ancients in a big (but bottom-feeding) way, I find my attitudes towards what I "git" to be evolving. I'm not thinking much like a numismatist these days - condition and grade do not seem to be much of a factor. Which is another way of saying from an "investment" standpoint, my collection is a disaster...:(:greedy: In Valentinian's OP, I prefer the one he got over the really nice expensive one. I think the lettering's better, the color's better, and I even like the broken-nosed Joe Palooka portrait better. But I also like the wear - something about the wear on an ancient coin adds to its appeal. I pretty much feel the same way about the other coins posted so far in this thread - interesting, lived-in, lovely coins of less-than-stellar grade. They're wonderful. All a matter of taste, of course. Or I'm just justifying my own bottom-feeding, low-grade proclivities. :shame: Whatever it is, there is something about a big old batch of scruffy Byzantines that gets me excited, more than a FDC that costs more than my last three cars combined. A recent lot for cheap: [ATTACH=full]1062935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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