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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 830675, member: 19463&quot;]I agree that rules seem less strict. When I collected US coins long ago, there were many people that collected coins from circulation and never paid over face value for a coin. Some were kids like me, some were not. There were people trying to get a complete set of large cents by date but preferred to have fifty different dates in AG to one in BU. If those guys are still around; they don&#039;t speak up much. &#039;Rules&#039; now require you never clean a coin and don&#039;t even admit to buying a metal detector find unless you are posting on a detectorist site rather than a coin collector site. You never buy a MS63 unless you are too poor to buy an MS65 and expect some guy in the club to tell you that his coin is MS67. You prefer to pay someone to grade and certify your coins rather than learning to do it yourself unless you plan on becoming a cherrypicker looking for coins that may sneak in at MS67 even though its current slab says it is MS65. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ancients have their share of people who believe in all these high end things but there are also those who appreciate coins that are a bit lower grade than even I consider collectable. We have uncleaned specialists that prefer crusty coins to be stripped by cruel and unusual electrocution. We have people who never spent over $20 on a coin rubbing elbows with people who have $2000 coins. I only know a couple people who have spent $20,000 on a single coin but last time I saw them we could still find something to talk about. We have differences but we don&#039;t all expect everyone to conform to our version of the &#039;rules&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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