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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8292010, member: 105571&quot;]On the contrary, I think your questions were answered by the number of members who addressed your questions with the nuance that the questions deserved.&nbsp; Of course, everyone&#039;s answers will depend on their POV but your questions were answered as asked.&nbsp; I think you draw an unsupported conclusion when you state that people that actively pursue details coins are too embarrassed to respond.&nbsp; You did not ask if people that collect details coins specifically keep that information hidden.&nbsp; You also ignore another possible reason why people do not display their details coins:&nbsp; A significant fraction of collectors are not interested in details coins.&nbsp; No one is going to post a comment saying &quot;Wow, what a super-duper coin and I really don&#039;t care about the great big ball peen hammer mark obliterating Lady Liberty.&quot;&nbsp; And you could have, subsequent to your original post, narrowed your question to the specific topic that interested you.&nbsp; I think the answers you got reflect only the people on CT who chose to respond, a very limited tranche of the overall collector community.&nbsp; I repeat your original questions below with simple answers to each one in <b>Bold</b>:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you happy with your coins?&nbsp; <b>Yes and No</b>.&nbsp; <b>Some were mistakes due to ignorance (regretted); some were to fill a hole due to impatience (regretted); some were because a straight-graded coin was simply too rare and too expensive and an affordable straight-graded coin was never or unlikely to ever become available&nbsp; (not regretted).</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Is it just a price thing?&nbsp; <b>No.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Do you have any buyer&#039;s remorse when a straight-graded coin becomes available?&nbsp; <b>Sometimes.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>BTW, there are indeed some people who make a point of collecting details coins and are not at all shy about it.&nbsp; For example, there is a collector in the Liberty Seated Collectors Club who is collecting Liberty Seated dollars that are holed.&nbsp; He displayed his collection at the last FUN show in Orlando.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I just won several Heritage auctions for John McCloskey half dimes a number of which were details coins and I am not the least bit embarrassed by those purchases.&nbsp; In fact, I posted one of them here, an R-6 coin that was both bent and cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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