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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely depends on the coin, primarily it's age and rarity.

    Most of what i collect (early to mid 19th century type) I like the AU-MS62 range for the best eye appeal-to-value ratio.

    Very early US type (pre-1808) I like VG-VF, coins that worked for our country when it was young.

    Such as these noble coins

    early circulated silver, man those coins talk of their experiences in my imagination.

    Modern coins, I like in Gem BU and Gem Proof, Ms or Pr 65-66 is plenty high for me, i don't shop for no top pops.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • Winged Liberty MS 66 because it is really hard to tell the difference between a 66 and a 67. The 66 is a much better bargain for the look that you get.
  • PR 68 CAM

    Best i can afford
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  • My favorite grade was 12th because I got laid for the first time.
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sliders all the way for me. Ya know, the ones with a tiny bit of rub with perfect, original surfaces and some remaining luster. In other words the kind of coins that are impossible to find but generally aren't that pricy when you do find them.
  • Im going to go with XF-40, I think it looks the coolest on coppers.
    Scott Hopkins
    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

    My Ebay!
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    64 is the one for Mercs before 1934. 66 or 67 after 1934. Overall for the series 65 is sort of thrifty and the coin is usually pretty nice.

    This was sort a vague answer but the series has many coins that can get very spendy even in 64 for a collector on a budget. image

    Ken
  • For investment purposes and the thrill of an upgrade, MS64, by far. When buying raw coins this is particularly true. I've made many raw purchases that were graded MS64 by the person selling them and had them certified as MS66's. Some MS67's even. For collecting, and the sheer beauty of coins, correctly graded MS66-67. A nicely toned type coin in these grades is astonishingly beautiful.

    Here's an MS67 seated dime that's lovlier in person than in the picture.

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    We are finite beings, limited in all our powers, and, hence, our conclusions are not only relative, but they should ever be held subject to correction. Positive assurance is unattainable. The dogmatist is the only one who claims to possess absolute certainty.

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  • That seated dime gives me a woody !
    if it looks better than that in hand im gonna need a cigarette !
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,379 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FE - MS66 or P65Cam

    IHC - MS67R
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.


  • << <i>That seated dime gives me a woody !
    if it looks better than that in hand im gonna need a cigarette ! >>



    This is the problem with coin guys. Lady Liberty makes us hornier than our wives/girlfriends do. image
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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    ef-40.

    K S

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