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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FTWrath, post: 1386260, member: 35765&quot;]I think I mentioned before that I always wanted a bust coin since I started collecting.</p><p>What kept me away was expensive slabbed ones and ugly raw ones, at least within my budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>Went to my coin dealer today to return a bad coin... and I was looking through his bust coins and most if not all were cleaned.</p><p>I did buy two. I mentioned yesterday his shop isn&#039;t exactly well lit and seeing hairlines is just about impossible. </p><p>So I bought a small keychain sized uv light and used that, it definitely brought out another side to the coins which I typically had to wait until I got home to see (when I photographed).</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was browsing through eBay most bust coins seemed to have suffered the same fate.</p><p>Are these treated differently by collectors because the population is so low?</p><p>Today I purchased two for $125. Basically buying them for G grade after pointing out that both were cleaned.</p><p>However, one would check out f Details, conservatively, and the other maybe even vf Details.</p><p>I bought them because they&#039;re basically going to go in my album and not budge for many years, unless I can &#039;afford&#039; to replace them with something very nice and graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, to reiterate my question, are these much older and more scarce bust coins not... what&#039;s the word.. scrutinized as harshly for their &#039;problems&#039; due to low populations? Only 2500 estimated for the 1811 Small 8 for example.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/QKl1m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/TXdO7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/rcsmL.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/GJHxK.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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