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Message:: [QUOTE="imrich, post: 1413879, member: 22331"]The Difference May Not Be Obvious To An Uninformed Collector I know that my comments and analogies may mean little to a relatively young individual as yourself, not knowing what might be easily understood, but you are using only one dimension of 2 different items to evaluate worth. These 2 different items are multi-dimensional, and to properly establish worth to the general purchasing market, many factors need to be considered. The worth of the MS63 coin you've shown is often established by the prominence of detail in the reverse bands. It is a lower mintage coin than the other example, having a date that was often improperly struck with the tail of the trailing nine blending with the rim. I know that some of these details are meaningless to the uninformed. I will try to present a parallel to your post which you may understand. Upon receiving my maximum allowed eBay earned bonus bucks, I perused the auctions searching for the special coin with unique "characteristics" might substantiate being purchased for my collection. I found a beautiful specimen of a NGC MS63 1885-CC Morgan Dollar that I purchased (with appreciable additional funds). Now, you might say why would you do that when many MS61 1921-P Morgan Dollars could be purchased for the same amount of funds. You may possibly understand my believed parallel example, and if not, additional explanation is futile. I recommend that you use whatever personal "standards" are appealing for your purchasing, and ignore our irrelevant suggestions. This thread has seemingly created great disparities in subjective understandings for collecting/purchasing. :thumb:[/QUOTE]

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