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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 3133868, member: 75936&quot;]Interesting perspectives.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eye appeal is a strong selling point for me, and a small flaw on an otherwise fine style coin is no deal breaker. And I like the toning, the coin felt right to me......</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT</p><p><br /></p><p>... then I dug further into CNG&#039;s &quot;research sold items&quot; and I realised how good it gets in this price range:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/926408.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one above hammered for $3750 (excluding buyer&#039;s fee), and is superior in every way to the original coin I posted. I&#039;d gladly have this one instead!</p><p><br /></p><p>And for even more money? Well, I think at that point it becomes a case of diminishing returns.</p><p><br /></p><p>$8750 buys you this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/926402.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah it&#039;s great... the obverse is even better still. But at more than double the price, does it have $5,000 more &quot;wow&quot; factor? Not for me. I guess I&#039;m not yet in that elite group of collectors who reach for the very top shelf. And how confident can I be that such a price would hold? I&#039;m concerned that the collectors who care for finest-knowns are a small club, and if membership diminished enough (natural attrition could do that), so too could the demand for the best of the best, and the willingness to pay large amounts for it.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>(Note -&nbsp; i do not know this series well enough to know if the different arrangement of devices on the reverse is important in terms of value/rarity. For me, it&#039;s all about the style and eye appeal).</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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