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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 3670614, member: 89393&quot;]Maybe you ought to watch Mike Mezack a little more than you have. Here&#039;s a guy who hawks MS70 &amp; PR70 ASEs for 199.95 plus shipping—this coin (bullion if you must), the Walker after which it was designed and the gorgeous SLQ are three of my four favorite USA coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some months ago I posted the seller&#039;s photos of a raw, ungraded 1924 SLQ before the coin actually arrived. There was a cadre of self-appointed critics who said the coin had been washed, or dipped; some even said it had been whizzed, but a very few, [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] among them, gave it the like accolade the coin really deserves. It&#039;s a far better looking coin than an absolutely beautiful 1920 that had been graded AU58 by PCGS, that I got from a seller in WV for $23. It doesn&#039;t have quite the luster of the &#039;20 when examined side-by-side, but if you squint your eyes enough and place the two coins under a very powerful light, it IS possible to see why the seller was willing to let me have it for $23, it just doesn&#039;t approach perfection quite as easily that which was the subject of such scorn here. I really wish that I had been able to buy that &#039;24 for as little as the &#039;20, but such is life. Neither of these SLQs come close to the ones with asking prices in the five figures, but gosh are they beautiful...the most beautiful SLQs I&#039;ve ever held in my hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own thousands of ASEs, but none of them have been certified by any of the TPGs. I have to admit that when I compare one of the many I own to what Mezak wants to sell you for $200, I have to ask myself, &quot;What is going on here?&quot; Most of the CT members look down their noses at the ASE <i><b>as a coin, anyway</b></i> so it isn&#039;t likely that they&#039;ll see the connection I&#039;m trying to draw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some astute CT member said in a thread some time ago that he didn&#039;t know if he could tell the difference between an MS68 and an MS70; I think he even mused over the value of one against the other as being so small that the MS70 buyer might even be wasting a little money. Flaws are there regardless, and holding&nbsp; handfuls of beach sand in each hand can open different worlds you never knew were there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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