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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1986474, member: 26302&quot;]I would agree with Longnine. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been around this hobby for a while now, going on 40 years. While in the 70&#039;s there of course was a desire of many to own excellent examples of coins, there didn&#039;t seem to be this severe push to collect &quot;only the very best&quot;. This manifests itself in many ways. One is pricing for the very top grade of a coin, even if the buyer can&#039;t physically even see the difference, (or if its even there, but that is a slab thread debate). Another is this perverse attraction to what others have labelled &quot;keys&quot;, and the assumption these &quot;keys&quot; are somehow superior coins. Off the top of my head, high grade 1916S dimes are a LOT rarer than 1916d dimes, yet the 16d has a much higher price since its a &quot;key&quot;, so somehow better.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with you wholeheartedly. These two things are kind of what drove me to ancient collecting. I really felt like I didn&#039;t belong in US collecting anymore since I simply could not understand these two major trends, and at times felt like an outsider if I did not subscribe to this, &quot;drink the koolaid&quot; as it were.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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