http://www.coinlink.com/News/general-collecting/why-a-motley-coin-collection-just-might-make-sense%e2%80%a6/ Rare Coins & Currency News for Numismatic Collectors - Updated Daily Mon, 07 May 2012 19:57:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.coinlink.com/News/general-collecting/why-a-motley-coin-collection-just-might-make-sense%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-54713 cb Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:37:36 +0000 http://www.coinlink.com/News/general-collecting/why-a-motley-coin-collection-just-might-make-sense%e2%80%a6/#comment-54713 I think you feel that the consistency makes it appear that the owner didn't expend energy collecting them. While an assortment of slabs suggests the owner hunted them down with a lot of effort over a longer period of time. I think that's what you meant by "freshness". Whenever something appears to require effort, we tend to reward it with a higher value (eg, natural imperfect diamonds which took the earth thousands or millions of years to make versus near perfect synthetic diamonds that took a week) I think you feel that the consistency makes it appear that the owner didn’t expend energy collecting them. While an assortment of slabs suggests the owner hunted them down with a lot of effort over a longer period of time. I think that’s what you meant by “freshness”. Whenever something appears to require effort, we tend to reward it with a higher value (eg, natural imperfect diamonds which took the earth thousands or millions of years to make versus near perfect synthetic diamonds that took a week)

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