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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2021466, member: 19463&quot;]I feel so very, very shallow but seem to be a condition snob compared to most of us and can not play in this league.&nbsp; I certainly have a number of ugly coins but I try to limit them to coins that have a reason to be ugly.&nbsp; That might mean real rarities or coins I could not otherwise afford.&nbsp; That might include coins that became ugly due to a feature that also made them interesting like overstrikes.&nbsp; The one class of uglies I can not abide are coins that have been raped by harsh cleaning either chemical or wire brushing.&nbsp; I have a few coins in my numbered collection that are uglier than the coins I would give away to school kids but they all have some redeeming numismatic value.&nbsp; What is it that made each of you buy these ugliest of the uglies?&nbsp; Were they all included in group lots you bought because of some better coins?&nbsp; Were they individual purchases when you were new enough to believe that ancient coins all need to look 2000 years old (2000 hard years!)? </p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a coin that was for years both my pride and a bane to my collection.&nbsp; It was the best I had of its RIC number (#16) but has since been upgraded.&nbsp; Since it was so important to me for so long as a coin I had when I started cataloging coins in 1987 (who knows when I got it before that), I could not bear to get rid of it just because I got a better one.&nbsp; I was proud to recognize it when I bought it so it is what I consider a good example of when it is right to buy a coin so ugly.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now it could not even be taken seriously in the ugly coin show.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]366186[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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