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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;xlrcable, post: 2376966, member: 41288&quot;]Yes, and I can see why it&#039;s not popular, but these issues are interesting to me precisely because they&#039;re hard. The easy way, which I see advocated here fairly often, is to adopt a rule that you&#039;ll never allow a problem coin into your collection; this avoids some of the tough decisions and simplifies navigating the market, especially if you leave the definition of &quot;problem&quot; to the TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, nearly all of us are working with limited budgets, even if the limits may vary by orders of magnitude. The ability to evaluate problems rationally can enable you, once in a while, to buy a coin you couldn&#039;t otherwise afford. I do understand the argument that if you break away from the prescribed standards, then the whole game just devolves into a confusion of personal preferences - I can tolerate a staple scratch but not a polished surface, you might be different. But then again, the whole collectibles market is a giant aggregate of personal preferences and yet it somehow resolves into pricing that&#039;s not totally unpredictable. I think some of us could benefit from more open discussion about the proper value of slightly impaired coins, but sometimes it feels like a taboo subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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