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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2108696, member: 73489&quot;]Kurt, great post and welcome.&nbsp; Some comments:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Mods have been OK, even when some of them have been on the opposite side of the debate.&nbsp; Lots of back-and-forth, but no uncivil words or threats to lock a thread, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yup....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Glad to know the book is The Source, as I just bought it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think I asked that question a few pages back, great minds think alike ? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We discussed this, too, great point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personal preference has to play a role too, right ?&nbsp; I do NOT like toned coins as a rule, so if I am buying a Morgan I want it pristine frosty white.&nbsp; But more people than me DO like them, so what to me is undesirable or maybe 3 grades lower is for them something worth paying-up for.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>I learned alot from Lehigh and GD on the High-AU&#039;s vs. Low-MS&#039;s debate.&nbsp; </b></span><span style="color: #000000">It is fascinating, but if the price of the AUs do not MATERIALLY exceed the low-60&#039;s MS&#039;s, you could say it is an anomaly based on a &#039;quirk&#039; of the grading scale.&nbsp; But for the most part, and for most coins, low-MS coins do look better than high-AUs.&nbsp; Maybe not for all sizes of coins (i.e., Morgans and Saints) but then again it&#039;s tough to write rules for hundreds of coins and not have any outliers. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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