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Message:: [QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 2765606, member: 39084"]I'm puzzled why you quoted my comment completely out of context.  Reread my post and you'll note that I wrote "...you'd be certifiably loony to choose the VF (all other aspects being equal)..." which is the essence of my reply. Clearly, for many ancient coins, all other aspects are rarely equal, but when they are roughly equal, it makes no logical sense to choose a poorer condition coin.  That's my point.  Period. To you, maybe not, but I'm pretty certain you didn't mean to impose your own viewpoint on all other collectors of ancient coins.  In fact, it might make an insightful poll here to see if most collectors would view an FDC ancient coin as intrinsically interesting regardless of its other features. I'm far from being one of "...you rich people..." and I would simply respond that, exactly like you, I collect what appeals to me about a particular coin or group of coins, when the coin is within my budget.  We're exactly alike in that respect.  Our criteria for evaluating coins might overlap only about 50%, but de gustibus non est disputandum.[/QUOTE]