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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2191773, member: 112&quot;]I agree with these comments, all of them. But I do have a question regarding your last sentence, the answer to which I think will be beneficial to those reading this - why ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;ll even go first. To me, an AU50 is just a much nicer looking coin than an XF45. Yes they are only 1 grade apart, but to my eyes that 1 grade makes all the difference when it comes to a coin pleasing me, making me feel good about my purchase, satisfied if you will. And that same way of thinking transfers on upwards too, in some cases a 63 just wouldn&#039;t be good enough, but a 64 or 65 would be, and so on. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, it also depends on why I am buying the coin. Now those that know me, truly know me, might question that and say something like - but Doug, you have always said to only buy coins that you like, so how can that be true ? Well it can be true because there are different reasons for my happening to like a coin. I may be trying to just add another date or mint mark to my collection and don&#039;t particularly care to spend a lot of money just to do that so a lower grade coin is good enough to satisfy that desire. And then there are the cases where I would buy a coin because of its beauty, and for me, that beauty would seldom be achieved with coins of lower grades so typically only higher graded coins would qualify. And then there were the cases where only the best would do.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a general rule, I always went for higher graded coins. But yeah there were cases when I would buy a VF and be perfectly happy with it. I guess the point I&#039;m trying to get across is that as a collector, you must first examine yourself and your reasons for buying any specific coin before you can answer the question, for yourself, as to what exactly is good enough, and what isn&#039;t. I think there are too many people who do not do that and thus buy coins for the wrong reasons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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