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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Check_M_All, post: 167934, member: 6661&quot;]I agree with you guys that it SHOULDN&#039;T matter, but I don&#039;t believe that is often the case. For myself, I like old coins that look old. I like circulated, toned coins. I enjoy being able to hold the coin without fear of dropping its grade a couple of points and wondering who may have used the coin to purchase what over the years. Of course, I can also appreciate the beauty of a mint state coin, but I would tend to purchase one in MS condition more as a specimen of the type to show what my other coins looked like new than to build the sets in MS condition. However, that&#039;s not what I read and hear expressed most of the time. What I hear is GRADE, GRADE, GRADE... Get the highest grade possible... always. People follow that thinking, and just as it is with cars, houses, TVs.... Mine&#039;s bigger than yours is, nanny nanny boo boo... That is why a coin can jump from $100 to over $1000 or more in the difference of one grading point. If there came a point that all coins produced came out perfect, there would only be those collecting them for the sake of having the design. Interest would wane among investment buyers. There&#039;d be no point in buying the new coins because everyone else&#039;s is the same and there&#039;s no way &quot;mine&quot; is going to be worth more than &quot;his&quot; down the road... unless we can get the TPGs to come up with some new designation that makes &quot;mine&quot; different... I can see it now. This is a rare coin of its type and available only for a limited time the 2012 ASE in flawless &quot;MS-70 First Slabbed&quot; condition. That&#039;s right folks. This is one of only 2500 coins given the &quot;First Slabbed&quot; label. From the 2501st submission on, these coins only receive a meager MS-70. So get this rarity today for only $750. </p><p><br /></p><p>Back on topic... I have yet to buy anything straight from the mint, but I can&#039;t resist a little smack talk, so... Yeah, what&#039;s going on? They got baboons or something there packing the sets up?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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