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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2111488, member: 44357&quot;]I absolutely agree that this is an abhorrent behavior. Perhaps I&#039;ve somehow managed to navigate around it and there are worse dealers out there, but no one I&#039;ve worked with in US coins and ancients has never insinuated that there is a minimum price for entry to buying good coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coming from a lower-middle class upbringing, I&#039;ve only been fortunate enough to afford more expensive coins comparatively recently. I thoroughly enjoy the large pile of ancients I have that cost me $2-3 (or less) each, as well as the albums of heavily circulated US coins collected with my father wherein the Dansco album costs far more than the enclosed coins are worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re saying the same thing; my point is that just because someone spends more money, it does not make them an &quot;investor&quot;. If a dealer is suggesting to wait for a coin that meets all of the attributes they&#039;re looking for (rather than settle on an impulse buy), that doesn&#039;t make them an &quot;investment advisor&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;ve read my posts in this thread, I&#039;m not at all inferring that you shouldn&#039;t buy a coin because you know of a nicer one that exists. It also isn&#039;t about dealers suggesting to seek out only the &quot;finest known&quot; or top grade coins: it&#039;s stating that it is worth waiting for a coin that you&#039;ll be happy with and not constantly stare at a problem you dislike (whether that&#039;s an edge split, smoothing, tooling, etc.) if you know you could wait and find one which doesn&#039;t have that problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Selling coins is time consuming and often results in losing money: why tie up capital (even $5) if you could wait a bit longer to find a coin which you wouldn&#039;t need to sell if a better fitting example came along? Patience is a virtue that needs to be encouraged in collectors of all budgets. New collectors don&#039;t know how to spot issues or the frequency at which coins come to market, which is where dealers with the &quot;but&quot; mentality are extremely helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many problems that I personally don&#039;t mind: when I was buying US coins, I would happily collect &quot;details&quot; coins that were lightly cleaned and crack them out of their holders. Some people don&#039;t like that - everyone has their personal preferences and needs to decide that for themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said several posts ago, &quot;A wholesome, well-centered, coin in good metal with solid detail and a grade of Fine or VF may be vastly superior to a MS coin with an irregular strike&quot;. I don&#039;t think anyone would consider a lower grade making a coin &quot;imperfect&quot;, and I don&#039;t think anyone has ever said &quot;[your] way of collecting is only for fools&quot;. The issue I have is that there&#039;s a perception that the people spending &gt; $X are in it only for a place to park their spare money, which is absolutely incorrect and frustrating to hear repeated the many times its been said or inferred.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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