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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1412136, member: 26302&quot;]Either are acceptable. I think quantity over quality is common in two circumstances:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Starting out. Everyone starts somewhere, and I think its poor form for anyone to begrudge a beginner buying coins they can afford. Don&#039;t ya&#039;ll remember the magic of owning your first &quot;old&quot; coin? I remember buying a shield nickel from savings when I was 8. Today I would say it was a vg crummy piece, back then it sparked my imagination. People shouldn&#039;t be such condition snobs.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. A person is going for breadth and completeness versus quality, (like Conder). Yeah, would you like to have a complete large cent collection in BU? Who wouldn&#039;t? Besides someone like Bill Gates or similar who the heck can afford that though? If every single collector refused to buy any coin but the highest available, then we would have very few collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess condition snobbery bothers me. I can afford to buy high quality coins in the areas I collect, but I have thousands more coins I don&#039;t own, and would rather buy 40 this year than 3. I really do not mind those who love high quality, good for them, and I understand the general advice to tell people that they may regret buying all low quality problem coins in the future, but to say a coin is not worth collecting or to look down on a collector because his coin are lower quality to me is just being a snob.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, its knowledge that we are really pursuing, as well as relaxation. If a collector enjoys himself, and can only afford to buy the breadth of his collection in lower grades, then good for him. If another collector only wished to have a narrower collection of higher quality for the same money, and also enjoys himself, good for him as well. Plenty of room for both under the coin collecting tent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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