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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3103828, member: 10461"]Well, the <i>current</i> medieval portion of my Eclectic Box is more pitiful than it was with the bygone inclusions, all of which got sold for one reason or another (mostly the old 20-coin limit I abandoned a year ago).</p><p><br /></p><p>That Ragusa grosso was great. [USER=82194]@dadams[/USER] owns it now, and you likely won't get it from him. Besides, if it leaves his collection, it needs to come back to mine!</p><p><br /></p><p>Re. the stuff here, when it's OP Coin B versus the Elizabeth I groat above, there's no contest. Lizzie wins easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I was getting at in the discussion about the inherent dilemma here. At $111-ish, Coin A in the OP stacks up reasonably well against everything else I could buy for that money (except perhaps some small proof gold). But at $223-ish, Coin B is in competition with a lot more potentially interesting things on my radar. (And due to the eclectic nature of my collection, my radar scope has a pretty wide sweep across many different categories at once.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3103828, member: 10461"]Well, the [I]current[/I] medieval portion of my Eclectic Box is more pitiful than it was with the bygone inclusions, all of which got sold for one reason or another (mostly the old 20-coin limit I abandoned a year ago). That Ragusa grosso was great. [USER=82194]@dadams[/USER] owns it now, and you likely won't get it from him. Besides, if it leaves his collection, it needs to come back to mine! Re. the stuff here, when it's OP Coin B versus the Elizabeth I groat above, there's no contest. Lizzie wins easily. This is what I was getting at in the discussion about the inherent dilemma here. At $111-ish, Coin A in the OP stacks up reasonably well against everything else I could buy for that money (except perhaps some small proof gold). But at $223-ish, Coin B is in competition with a lot more potentially interesting things on my radar. (And due to the eclectic nature of my collection, my radar scope has a pretty wide sweep across many different categories at once.)[/QUOTE]
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