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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2984151, member: 71723"]My opinion of this kind of material is presently in flux. On one hand, every old-school numismatist I've ever known would dismiss this out of hand and derisively toss it back onto the counter at you. ON THE OTHER HAND, this IS a hobby with a history of cataclysmic changes of emphasis and tastes, too. Is this one such turning point? How can we tell from where we are right now? Aren't you impressed that you MAY BE written of someday as one of the people that changed this hobby? How "meta" is that? Here's literal truth - there was once a time when almost no collectors took notice of mintmarks. I PERSONALLY REMEMBER a time when ALL toning was considered a detriment and LOWERED the value of coins. (Half the CT members who read this just fainted dead away.) Ultimately, while almost no numismatists TODAY might care about your piece, the hobby may have turned on its head someday and you'll be in the "cat bird seat" from having saved this'n.[/QUOTE]