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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3240718, member: 19463&quot;]Ken stated my attitude on the matter perfectly.&nbsp; I believe you will find more of us of a certain age that consider wear a fact of life and are more turned off by poor surfaces, ugly color and missing details from strike and centering.&nbsp; He also showed a nice array of ugly-as-sin scraps of metal that are still 100% collectible and desirable for the interest they bring.&nbsp; Now lets be quite clear that I also expect coins of this nature to sell for a discount.&nbsp; The slab crowd wants those MS and AU coins with problems that are deal breakers to me but won&#039;t look at a VF let alone a VG.&nbsp; That fact means I don&#039;t have to compete with a thousand new people --- just Ken and a handful of other right thinking folks. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins I could not resist:</p><p>Leader in its category:&nbsp; My Paypal payment was enroute withing 30 seconds of seeing this coin online.&nbsp; It is a Byzantine Anonymous A3 overstruck on a Gordian III as.&nbsp; Some roaches take longer to stamp out than others.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]848245[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another is the first and only gold over silver fourree I encountered in a half price box.&nbsp; This one required a fraction of a second to accept because I had heard of these but not seen one and would have paid full price.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]848255[/ATTACH] </p><p>Frank Robinson listed this one as what it was and I decided to bid just a bit more than I though it was worth.&nbsp; I had wanted a Byzantine overstrike&nbsp; on what was obviously a quarter cut of a larger coin.&nbsp; He mentioned that the coin was the example photographed in the Sear Byzantine book #1262.&nbsp; I thought that was worth a bonus.&nbsp; No one else did.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]848257[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Did I mention?&nbsp; I don&#039;t collect Byzantine to any great degree but, when a coin asks nicely, who am I to say no?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect Parthian as a specialty but this Mithradates II was just too beautiful to leave at that show.&nbsp;&nbsp; I feel so shallow falling victim to a pretty face.&nbsp; At least it is too worn to be EF!&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]848259[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I like turtles.&nbsp; This stater of Aigina was struck on a nugget flan rather than the relatively more boring round style most people prefer.&nbsp; This coin was to replace in my heart a coin I turned down when I was first collecting that had an even more baroque flan but I was not willing to pay the price then.&nbsp; I have kicked myself repeatedly over the years.&nbsp; I still like this coin but it was a &#039;settle&#039; not really a &#039;had to have&#039;.&nbsp; I wonder where the first one ended up?&nbsp; Maybe it was melted since it would not fit in a slab???&nbsp; Moral:&nbsp; When you see a &#039;have to have&#039; coin maybe you need to get it so you don&#039;t have to settle for a really nice second place in your heart example. </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/159751358.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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