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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2548403, member: 76194&quot;]That&#039;s the reason I jumped to ancient coins. No dates, mostly no mint marks (and whenever there is a mint mark, in most cases the mint marks hardly have any effect on price), no issues over whether a coin is MS-60, MS-60+, MS-60* or who honestly cares, and thousands of different coin types to chose from instead of the narrow number of coins in the U.S. coin hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention that in ancients a variety is not worth mentioning unless you can clearly see it with the naked eye, and in most cases it is not really a different variety unless there is outright a different symbol, legend, reversed letters, or something substantial...and even then most people could care less about small varieties within similar themed coins of the same ruler or can&#039;t be bothered to pay anything extra except for die hard OCD collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years in the crazy US Coins market is enough to suck the fun out of coins except for the more die hard collectors. The coins are basically the same for decades at a time, there is no high relief or anything really interesting these days (same old presidents and same old themes), and the obsession with microscopic varieties and condition, and slabbing, is just out of control. At least that&#039;s how it seems to an ancients/medieval collector like me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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