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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1000618, member: 19463&quot;]This weekend I went to a show and bought 20 cleaned and common late Romans from two different dealers for prices ranging from $5 to $7 per coin.&nbsp; One would grade EF but most were F-VF and had legible mintmarks allowing full ID.&nbsp; The question here is whether your thrill of the hunt is satisfied by the search for coins like I bought or whether you have to remove the dirt and be the first person to see the coin.&nbsp; Certainly uncleaned coins offer a one in a million chance of getting a really rare coin and the chance of my getting one is considerably less.&nbsp; Obviously what I bought were not rarities.&nbsp; How many slugs you tolerate for that additional hope of a special coin is a matter for us each to decide.&nbsp; I prefer coins cleaned before I get them.&nbsp; You may have a different hobby.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I might add that the difference between the $5 and the $7 coins was the dealer more than the coins.&nbsp; There were other dealers there with similar coins for $20 but I did not buy them.&nbsp; At some point you will probably have enough of the common types that you stop buying $7 cleaned or $2 uncleaned coins and have to raise your price point to get different things.&nbsp; As it was, I accidentally bought a couple duplicates.&nbsp; Out of a hundred uncleaned coins, how many are duplicates?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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