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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2765593, member: 19463&quot;]I am by the standards of you rich people &quot;certifiably loony&quot;.&nbsp; I choose to have two nice coins that have interest over one coin that has nothing going for it other than it looking like it did the day it was struck.&nbsp; Certainly I would like an EF if everything else were equal but that very rarely comes up in my &#039;style&#039; collecting.&nbsp; There are too many variables for everything to be equal.&nbsp; Being gold does not make a coin better, it makes it gold.&nbsp; Being perfect does not make a coin interesting.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather have two that were presentable but today it is more like five presentable coins for the money of one perfect.&nbsp; So far this year I have bought several coins that simply do not come in a higher grade than the one I bought.&nbsp; That makes the coins fit my collection better than they would people who see them as defective.&nbsp; I posted a page showing my 100 favorite coins&nbsp; but they were not my 100 most expensive coins (although a couple were &#039;expensive&#039; by my standards).&nbsp; Neither were they my 100 prettiest, least worn or market-popular coins.&nbsp; They were the coins that I, and perhaps only I, found thrilling when they came to stay with me for a while.&nbsp; That is life here in the loony bin. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few hundred years ago, the nobility bought entire intact collections and valued having huge numbers not high grades. Read <b><font size="5">Numismatics, An Ancient Science</font></b></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Numismatics-Ancient-Science-Elvira-Clain-Stefanelli/dp/B0014XR9QA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497134614&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=numismatics+an+ancient+science" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Numismatics-Ancient-Science-Elvira-Clain-Stefanelli/dp/B0014XR9QA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497134614&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=numismatics+an+ancient+science" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Numismatics-Ancient-Science-Elvira-Clain-Stefanelli/dp/B0014XR9QA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497134614&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=numismatics+an+ancient+science</a></p><p><br /></p><p>See how often the quality of coins is mentioned as opposed to numbers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Almost 200 years ago, Akerman wrote his<b> Roman Coins</b> cataloging not all the coins he knew but only the rare ones making special note which of the types were most rare and next most rare.&nbsp; Nothing was mentioned about grades.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A hundred years ago collectors like Dattari assembled huge groups so they could pick out the different types.&nbsp; Yes, they kept the best ones where there were duplicates (actually they seem to have kept them all) but the important feature was having types not known before to every collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>The concept of micro grading in US produced a generation ashamed to own a MS60.&nbsp; When these people moved to ancients we see the situation mentioned by TIF that slabbed coins not MS 5/5 are seen as defective and can be bought at discount.&nbsp; Who wants a VF with 2/5 surfaces? Loonies like me, that&#039;s who, since it makes it possible for me to own the coin I otherwise would not.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I had forgotten this post but the answer is whichever letter gives me the coins I want.&nbsp; Not every $1000 coin is more desirable to Loonies just because there is a line of people waving cash at it.&nbsp; Coins dealers pray someone will take off their hands need love, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just my $1 Canadian worth. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]636718[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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