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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2565971, member: 59677&quot;]Of those two? Neither. Hate the slick (I can&#039;t read the date and you probably can&#039;t either once you put it into the album). Not a big fan of the road rash special either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conceptually?</p><ul> <li>First choice would be to save money a bit at a time for a decent, straight-grade one.</li> <li>Second, I&#039;d prefer a lower grade straight-graded coin (but some minimum like G4).</li> <li>Third would be the damaged coin, probably only if it&#039;s something I realize I&#039;ll never be able to get any other way.</li> </ul><p>The thing to ask yourself is &quot;If I settle, will it eat away at me?&quot;&nbsp; Will you be happy with the hole filled or just see it as a blinking red failure, every time you look at the album. Don&#039;t do it just to fill the hole if it will make you unhappy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For example, I have an (impaired) PF58 in my XF/AU 3CS Set. Given the mintage, that&#039;s the best I&#039;m likely going to do...</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Business Strike</u> mintage 4k, most melted in the 1870s.</p><p>PCGS has 2 XF40, 1 XF45, 61 all grades. NGC 2 XF40, 44 all grades.</p><p>Estimated survival 300 all grades.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Proofs</u> mintage 625.</p><p>PCGS has 7 impaired proofs, 316 total.&nbsp; NGC 220, non impaired.</p><p>Estimated survival 575, all grades.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If I ever have the opportunity, I&#039;ll exchange the PF58 for an XF40/45, but if I never am able to, it&#039;s still a very nice piece. And the set has other things that don&#039;t, strictly, belong, but they are there because I like them...</p><p><br /></p><p>Now there are some other coins in that set where I found a nice XF and moved the AU coin I had initially into other collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting is very, very personal and do what makes YOU happy![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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