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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;George Kalas, post: 3897039, member: 96505&quot;]Very true......and I do collect Mercs. Been collecting those since 1970 and like most people I love the design. But I don’t like collecting them in AG03 and G04 or any grade below VF. In recent years I’ve only been buying MS examples. I guess I’m spoiled. I like mint state and proofs 95% of the time. This preference, of course, blows me out of the market for a 1916-D since I am not a numismatic “whale” capable of buying whatever I want with price being no object.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I expanded into foreign coins in the past two decades. Lots of beautiful and historically interesting material out there to be had in top grade and rarity at achievable price points. In addition to Rhodesian coins I also pursue Peruvian Seated Libertad Half Dinero’s from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I own many in the MS 65 thru 67 grading range with many exhibiting prooflike characteristics and having attractively low mintages. I rarely have to pay more than $100 per specimen, and often less than $50, because of the thin market in Peruvian coins and yet I own coins whose beauty rivals, if not exceeds, that of our own Liberty Seated Half Dimes. If you’ve never given much thought to foreigns you might want to peruse a Krause catalog of foreign material some time. So much good stuff out there to enjoy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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