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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5182751, member: 19463&quot;]Chances are I won&#039;t be so good looking when I&#039;m 104 but I hope that if I am still around that I will know better than to pay ten times what a coin is worth either before or after it was butchered.&nbsp; Certainly many collectors will agree that this coin was cleaned wonderfully and it will probably sell to someone with more cash than sense.&nbsp; Is this coin better than my example of the type.&nbsp; 99% of all collectors would agree it is but I would not make an even trade because I (not European) prefer smoothed green to ravenged raw even if that means a worn coin.&nbsp; $213 in 2001 from a dealer known to be overpriced.</p><p>Fine</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1212897[/ATTACH]</p><p>However, for the record, the coin I like best on this page is the first one of bcuda.&nbsp; Yes I would prefer a smooth coin with green patina but a smooth coin with the more scarce legend is on my list.&nbsp; I have one and it is the higher traditional grade of my two (less wear, more hair detail) but it has surfaces NGC should grade -1/5 at best.&nbsp; I have had it for years and found it so repulsive I never catalogued it so I do not know how I came to have it.&nbsp; When I discovered it was the scarcer legend I decided I should keep it until I got a decent one. To some of us, surfaces are more important than wear. Buying coins only by letter grade is folly, IMHO.</p><p>VF? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1212898[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope, in 30 years, ffjun will have a better one.&nbsp; His father has an excuse for not knowing a lot about coins but Junior has time to be whatever he wants to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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