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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 5217554, member: 104064"]Lots of banter on here but I'll attempt to answer from my own perspective. I purchased this 1947 50c Maple Leaf Curved Right as a 60th birthday present to myself. I don't know if it quite ranks up there with the 1921 5c, since it's a variety. But the reputed mintage is around 200 in both circulation and specimen. As a kid, I became fascinated with the story of the 1947 ML coins, largely because I received several of them from my grandfather, and became aware of the curved right 7 50c as a rarity. I dreamed of owning one off and on for a very long time. The MS version was always out of reach (and rarely appears). This one came up at auction as a Specimen, UNC Details Cleaned. So I bought it "just to have one", and for the "details" grade probably paid too much. However, when it arrived I was quite pleased. I don't care if somebody else called it "cleaned", to me it's a spectacular coin. Often I convince myself that PCGS blew it on the "details", and I think about resubmitting it, but most of the time I don't really care. I have it, and am enjoying the moment in time, as you say. I think the purchaser of your 1921 example might not care either, it's "just to have one". [ATTACH=full]1215962[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]