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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8194054, member: 75937&quot;]For my specialty collection, I care less about grade than I do about completeness, and I recognize an opportunity cost that comes from being a condition crank. I consider it wasteful to pay a huge premium for a high-grade example; the money necessary to choose an EF example over a gF could have been used to buy other coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are common coins. I&#039;m not only perfectly happy with them for about a $100 each, I&#039;m hundreds of dollars richer for not seeking chEF examples of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435111[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1435117[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The money I&#039;ve saved by not seeking high-grade examples allows me to purchase other coins when the opportunity arises. A condition crank would say I&#039;ve picked up some real dogs along the way. But when your goal is completeness and coins are extremely rare, you take what you can get.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only known example of this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435119[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are only two known examples of this coin. [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER] owns the other one.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-avgvsta-s-c-vesta-standing-as-veiled-jpg.1399577/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are three known examples of this one.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-salvti-avgvstae-s-c-standing-dupondius-jpg.1208021/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are four known examples of this one. [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] has one of them, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435118[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are five known examples of this one.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-pietas-avgvsti-temple-denarius-jpg.1380942/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I could show lots of other coins from my specialty collection that are known from fewer than ten specimens, but you get the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do I acquire all these rare coins? Because OVERALL, Faustina I and II coins are EXTREMELY COMMON and most people don&#039;t want 500 Faustina coins in their collection and one will do. So, they choose one in a slab with the magic letters &quot;MS&quot; or &quot;EF&quot; on it. It&#039;s good for me that 99+% of collectors turn up their noses at coins like this ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435123[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... without recognizing it&#039;s one of the rarest coins ever produced for Faustina I.</p><p><br /></p><p>But because only a few collectors actually want one, RARE DOES NOT MEAN EXPENSIVE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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