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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3322295, member: 19463&quot;]As threads tend to do, this left the original question and wandered away.&nbsp; No one said that history and price are not important considerations.&nbsp; The question was whether, all else being equal, style or condition made more difference to us.&nbsp; More said the like style.&nbsp; Sale results suggest the opposite.&nbsp; That may be because the average CT participant is not the average collector but, as a group, is aware of more considerations than VF versus MS.&nbsp; Relatively few here are primarily interested in the cash value and investment potential of coins.&nbsp; More of us realize that we won&#039;t be repaid at a living wage for all the time we spend learning, for all the books we buy or for the mistakes we make along the way.&nbsp; We attract many people who have become just a bit bored with their previous coin hobby and are looking for a bit more complexity. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I respect AJ greatly and love to look at his wonderful coins but my take on the hobby is almost exactly the opposite from his order.&nbsp; I value most coins as having history and tend not to go for the ones covered better by surviving writers than those whose history requires digging.&nbsp; That eliminates his #1 from my hobby.&nbsp; I see #2 beauty and #6 eye appeal as closely related and probably put more emphasis in his words &quot;for the type&quot; than many people.&nbsp; We definitely reverse #3 and #5 since I prefer detail lost to wear to detail never on the flan due to centering.&nbsp; #4 marks and scrapes also bother me less than details lost to centering as long as the seller is more offended by the faults than I am&nbsp; and prices accordingly.&nbsp; I love test cuts and dislike scrapes from overly zealous metal detectorist shovels.&nbsp; The one thing AJ did not cover is my #1 of #1 attractions.&nbsp; I love coins that teach me something and demonstrate some technical factor of coin production or mint operation.&nbsp; Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I like coins that have a lot to say even if they have faces only a mother could love.&nbsp; The wonderful part of the hobby is there are plenty of coins for each of us.&nbsp; I do not want AJ&#039;s competition for the coins I want.&nbsp; For that matter, I wish all of you would go over to collecting only boring baubles with MS labels so I could have more of those junky F-VF coins I love.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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