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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8289498, member: 105571&quot;]Since there is so much variety in people&#039;s collecting interests, there is a huge variance in collector&#039;s tolerance for details coins, along with other considerations such as budget, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if we eliminate other considerations such as budget, eye appeal, future marketability (I know, we can&#039;t really eliminate those considerations) then maybe the aspect of genuine rarity can be discussed.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several aspects to rarity:</p><p><br /></p><p>1)&nbsp; Genuine rarity as in &quot;there just aren&#039;t very many of them out there.&nbsp; 1913 Liberty Head Nickels, 1804 dollars, and the like come to mind.</p><p>2)&nbsp; Marketplace rarities where the demand challenges or exceeds the demand.&nbsp; Think of 1909S VDB cents and 1877 IHCs.&nbsp; Most conditional rarities are a subset of this category.</p><p>3)&nbsp; Coins that encompass both categories.&nbsp; These are coins that are in somewhat limited demand but also don&#039;t appear on the market very often because while they are out there, they are often in strong hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=9270]@kanga[/USER] 1796 dime fall into the third category.&nbsp; As an R-5, it&#039;s not thar rare.&nbsp; As an R-5 AU, it has aspects of conditional rarity.&nbsp; There are few people who collect these early dimes as sets but there are a ton of people (myself included) who collect by type and the 1796 and 1797 dimes are the only ones that will fill that hole.&nbsp; For those of us with budgets limited by the necessity to eat, details coins are sometimes the only options.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking at the following coin on a Heritage auction last night.&nbsp; Hammered for $500 ($600 with the vig).&nbsp; Greysheet G-4 is listed at $1300 so this coin brought a pretty good price.&nbsp; It is basically a horrible coin but I would have bought it willingly if the hammer had been a little lower.&nbsp; I would have had regrets over the purchase but I would have done it anyway because these just don&#039;t show up that often and I am 70 and don&#039;t have decades to pursue my collecting aspirations.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I will keep on the lookout for a nice straight-graded example, I will also consider any details coin of this type that shows up in the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I am seeing a plenitude of details coins showing up in the better auctions, far more than what appeared a few years ago.&nbsp; I guess that&#039;s a function of the reported dearth of material we&#039;ve been hearing about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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