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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 4574030, member: 90666&quot;]Many collectors like mint state coins with brilliant surfaces. Sadly, to finance the study of old collectors and collections which I do now, over the last decade I&#039;ve got out of collecting mint state coins with brilliant surfaces. I can&#039;t give the coins away to anyone who would look after them since they arent accepted by museums and I can&#039;t afford to give them to other collectors and still focus on the old provenance coins I do now as Id then have nothing&nbsp; (and no pension savings either).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, yes I made mistakes over time. I bought things I regret. I&#039;m now selling them to collectors that include those for whom the origin of the coins is immaterial and for whom condition predominates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also sell coins with excellent provenances, almost all found through my own research. But my research on every coin is so thorough that if you buy a coin from my collection that says for example &quot;purchased from Roma in 2013&quot; with no other information,&nbsp; then thats pretty much the end of further research possibilities. You&#039;ll have a lovely coin but with no deep provenance and collecting history. If that&#039;s fine with you, and it makes the buyer happy and the seller happy, then good deal. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just collect other stuff nowadays and reacted to this post due to several ppl saying there&#039;s no other choice than to collect recent hoard Kosons. There are other choices but you pay more and you&#039;ll have worn rather than mint state coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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