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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1314736, member: 26302&quot;]Well then you get extra good deals then! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am with you in that wear to me is simply another thing that can be wrong with a coin. Way too many collectors consider wear to be the WORST type of damage to a coin, and everything else secondary. I consider all aspect away from perfect equally damaging. I will pick out a gF worn but pleasant coin every time instead of a gVF with corrosion. Eye appeal, above all, should make your choice between identical items. Luckily for both of us the market doesn&#039;t price coins that way. </p><p><br /></p><p>While I know this in my head, sometimes it really kind of freaks me out. I was at CICF once, and going through a tray, and there were two identical coins. One was a pleasing, hard green patina toned, well centered byzantine, and the other one was not as well centered with surface porosity. The second was labeled $80, so I made my decision and picked the pleasant green example. Price? $32. I had the 4 $20 in my hand, and was simply speechless why the dealer had my very pleasing gF for $32 while this (technically ignoring porosity and ugly mud brown patina), gVF/aXF was priced at $80. I bet it looked like I was struck stupid, being unable to speak as my mind was trying to comprehend HOW the dealer came up with such pricing!</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a heck of a point Doug. Bottom line, especially for ancients, buy whatever coin pleases you. Never get hung up on grade, since grade, especially on ancients, is just tiny piece to value, and as long as the coin pleases you, has no bearing on whether you should buy or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again Collect89, this is why you should never be offended by how I grade. I grade pretty strictly, but personally do not worry what the technical grade of a coin is.&nbsp; I simply prefer to use our historical strict grading. However, if you like the coin, and it pleases you, then you made a great purchase. Its a nice coin, nicely centered, nice surfaces, nice contrast, I would have bought it over a full VF or even a gVF with other issues. </p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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