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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3998949, member: 19463&quot;]I have never understood the degree to which wear is found to be unacceptable when compared to other things that can be wrong with a coin.&nbsp; Top on this list are coins off center or poorly struck so they can only be identified by die matching.&nbsp; Next are coins of poor style but high grade which tend to sell above those with fine style but worn.&nbsp; Years ago there was a seller I believed must be going out of his way to buy at a discount poor style coins in European sales and sell them in the US where high grade was more important.&nbsp; Finally there is the matter of very rare reverses which only come in very high grade so I must compete with people who only want a portrait example.&nbsp; I regret it when there are few known of a coin but all are EF more than when the best is just fine.&nbsp; I will never have an Eastern (not Indian) aureus of Septimius Severus for this reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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