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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1283733, member: 19463&quot;]Grade has nothing to do with whether I want many coins but the point here is avoiding the surprise when I get home from a show and discover that the common coin I bought because it was a great &#039;deal&#039; turns out to be a cull.&nbsp; It is information.&nbsp; Many of my favorite coins got on that list without reference to grade or beauty.&nbsp; Here lately, I have been finding relatively few coins I want for my prime collection and have been buying things to fill out the junk box and trading stock.&nbsp; At the last show, a dealer had a bunch of $15 late Romans which yielded some really nice coins and some I wish I had not bought.&nbsp; In hand, most looked pretty nice.&nbsp; As an example, the one below looks OK at 1X but is impossible to photograph in the size I prefer without showing its ragged surfaces from the silvering.&nbsp; A good magnifier would have resulted in it staying at the show.&nbsp; The point is not good or bad but being able to separate coins I will like from the others and avoid surprises.&nbsp; We often hear &#039;looks better in hand&#039;.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like coins like that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]142836.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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