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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1287320, member: 26302&quot;]Well I wasn&#039;t thinking of just ancients. Other world coins, especially civil war and seige coinage, also are in the same position that &quot;problem free&quot; coins simply do not exist. In those cases, and only those cases, I think a collector collects what he can and be grateful to be able to obtain anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>For US and world coinage, (and even for a lot of medieval and ancient coins), in most instances, you are always better off spending more for problem free coins since they are available. Examples I could site would be late Roman Constantius bronzes. Those miserable little corroded coins frequently on Ebay will never be worth anything, since they are damaged and tens of thousands of undamaged ones exist. On the other end of the spectrum, even for US coinage I do not believe a &quot;problem free&quot; strawberry leaf exists, this is also true for a few varieties of colonial coinage, in this case even for US coins if no problem free examples exist collect what you are able to. Sogdian coins are like this as well, they are extremely rare in copper problem free do to the soil acidity in that area of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, I am simply saying IF problem free coins for an issue are available, its always better to buy those. If they are not, then buy the &quot;problem&#039; coins and don&#039;t hold the problem against them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this was clearer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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