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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1917107, member: 42773&quot;]You have to ask yourself, as I did: at what distance do you most appreciate your coins. The closer you zoom in on any coin, the more defects you see. There is no such thing as a perfect coin. 70 grades don&#039;t mean perfect by any stretch - look at the metal with enough magnification and you&#039;ll find copious anomalies.</p><p><br /></p><p>So at what magnification do the hairlines and spotting and planchet flaws really bother you? Is cameo contrast more important than those things, or less? Is a lower grade cameo coin better than a higher grade non-cameo coin? Do the aesthetics vary from one issue to another?</p><p><br /></p><p>Those are the kinds of questions an astute collector has to answer for himself, and some of those answers are only going to come from purchasing mistakes. I made my share of those mistakes, and have no reason to believe I won&#039;t make them again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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