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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7777928, member: 19463&quot;]We might even make a point that the &#039;finest&#039; coins to be collected already are in collections and may currently be half a world away from where they were made.&nbsp; It would make no difference were it not for what I consider the racist and self serving political entities have injected into the coin market.&nbsp; Do Greeks who still live in Greece have &#039;rights&#039; over people of Greek heritage who live in Australia?&nbsp; Do purebred descendants of the people who issued coins have &#039;rights&#039; over the people who conquered that region a thousand years later or is it the other way around?&nbsp; Should the British Museum be required to return the things they bought/stole/were given by whoever it was that was in charge &#039;there and then&#039;?</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the least enjoyable part of this hobby is having to consider questions like these.&nbsp; I am a mutt with traceable ancestors to a dozen different places.&nbsp; I might see it differently if I really believed that the guy I see in the mirror was Caesar Augustus or Socrates but I don&#039;t. As it is, I strongly prefer buying coins from old collections hoping the people who control the hobby remain satisfied making it hard on people interested in the coins to get new finds and don&#039;t come after the ones I have been gathering over the last 55 years.&nbsp; I slowed down buying from Europe after three bad experiences in 2016.&nbsp; You are welcomed to chase the ones politicians allow you to have.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather have the ones that already made the trip.&nbsp; I guess this is like a new collector preferring a coin already in a slab over having to decide which dealers are trustworthy before sending it of to NGC for an opinion.&nbsp; We do what returns the most joy for the effort/trouble/risk involved.&nbsp; I plan to buy no slabbed coins and have removed all I have ever had except one (not NGC!!!) that was misidentified by the &#039;expert&#039; someone trusted in error.&nbsp; My hobby is quite different from that of the person who started this thread and 99% of those who read here.&nbsp; That is OK. </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Augustus coins:</p><p>Best type (sorry about that nail):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1334272[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Best style and a perfect example of a fourree with clear seam and just enough core to prove the point:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1334273[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish you well in finding a coin you like as much for whatever reasons you consider important.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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