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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 1988187, member: 36248&quot;]Great post. I bolded the point I liked best, to reinforce for others. </p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">@</font><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/torontokuba.56793/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/torontokuba.56793/"><font size="4">torontokuba</font></a><font size="4"> as much as we have to agree to disagree on a lot of points in other threads, you clearly are a pretty sharp collector, so I&#039;m confused why you don&#039;t understand situations exists where another collector would take a lesser numerical grade coin over an available&nbsp; higher grade coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">The cliche example would be choosing a nice AU58 over an MS63 coin.&nbsp; Many people, me included, would choose a beautiful and original AU58 to a dipped and baggy MS63.&nbsp;&nbsp; Another example might be a VF30 with attractive circulated cameo over a higher grade coin that might be cost prohibitive even a few grades up.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; In some cases, coins of a particular date and mint-mark might be readily available from low grades VF up to Low MS grades.&nbsp;&nbsp; As a collector, I&#039;m often stretching to even afford the circulated example, but you seem so incredulous that I wont just go for the available MS examples.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Sometimes it&#039;s all we can afford, and more importantly, sometimes its a coin that we find more pleasing than an available MS example, no matter how quick a search it would have been.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; You are being quite myopic by assuming that it must be because some collectors are too lazy to check for a higher grade MS example of the Type.&nbsp; &nbsp; Maybe we cant afford the MS Type, maybe we don&#039;t want the MS type.&nbsp;&nbsp; To me at least, I&#039;ll take an original circulated coin with a CAC sticker and original surfaces all day long over some generic MS coin, even if the MS coins is slightly cheaper.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hunt for coins several hours a day to feed the hobby addiction, and I see pretty much everything available online in my budget for the Types I want.&nbsp; Don&#039;t assume I chose a circulated coin because I was too lazy to see the MS coin.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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