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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 6365232, member: 19463&quot;]My collection is based on the minority opinion that it is better to see the good points of a coin than to condemn its shortcomings.&nbsp; Of the million and some types of ancient coins, many simply do not exist in high grade and few are so common in high grade that everyone who wants a mint state example can have one.&nbsp; Compared to many people, I am a condition snob but I rate coins on eye appeal rather than the lack of one specific element of condition: wear.&nbsp; I might go so far as to say I prefer coins I have collected as representatives of their dies which produced &#039;better&#039; in some manner coins than other dies of the same or different type.&nbsp; That, however, makes me guilty of avoiding lesser coin due to their lack of eye appeal.&nbsp; It is great there are so many coins so we each can have what fits out own definition of desirable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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