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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2896241, member: 76194&quot;][USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] and Ominus1,&nbsp; if I had picked my top 10 favorite coins, instead of top 5, Gordies would have made up 4 out of the 5 spots in my top 6-10. This is in no way to diminish from how much I like Gordian, but simply due to the beautiful and interesting non-Gordians in my collection which I also like so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also note that some of my highest grade coins didn&#039;t make the list. #4 is a VF and #3 has a die break on the flan, and even #5 has a weak reverse legend at 1 o&#039;clock. If condition was everything, they wouldn&#039;t be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to this ancients forum and everyone&#039;s influence here, I&#039;ve gotten to the point where I admire coins for more than just how well preserved they are. Some of my favorite coins are no better than VF, while some AU coins are at the bottom of the list. These days the theme, the coiner, the historical importance, mint, denomination, and the style matter as much if not more than the grade. That is a notion I would have laughed at when I was a US collector. Back then it was all about MS-64+ and CAC stickers, and which TPG graded the coin. Everything else was simply not that relevant. So I can therefore conclude that this forum has made me a better coin collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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