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MikeKing

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I'll take advantage of being able to write down my thoughts and experiences with this instant publishing adventure. Thank you NGC.

Taking being tested and passivity a step further...and the idea that encapsulated grading can be a fools road to eye appeal...Yes, it can be. That's not denying the impeccable beauty in high grade mint state coins, and the intrinsic difficulties of finding premium quality gems, but this is not the be-all and the end-all.Example:I was bidding on an MS62 Nova Consellatio. Totally superb. Something I've wanted for a long time. Financially, a decent chunk of money. Someone outbid me by a fraction of the next bidding increment, and had I been there, likely, I would have gone the next highest bid. Unfortunately, I was not there. Or is that fortunate?It was fortunate.First of all, you can't always have what you want.Secondly, herein lies the challenge of developing as a collector.I questioned: Do I have to have a high grade Nova?What am I collecting?What am I collecting for?What am I actually therefore looking for?Well, great copper is my answer. OK, how do you define 'great'?If I take away my pre-concieved ideas about what this Nova 'should' have been, and allow myself the privilege to see something afresh; from what I think a good planchet 'should' be, and what I expect the SURFACES to look like, and what is not just acceptable as a STRIKE but what I EXPECT from a strike of that era, and finally that knock the socks off feeling you get when you look at a coin...it's EYE APPEAL.Now it would be a lot easier for me to find a Nova of even higher grade and internally convince myself of the clout of something so 'stellar' (no pun intended) and thereby feed my self-confidence in displaying such a coin, than to display something of a 'lesser' grade, a 'lower' price; something that is more liable to 'fault' or 'fault-finding' by others.Well...no! I'm a collector. I am in a continuous process of learning. I will determine, ultimately, what is of importance to me, what has eye appeal, to me, what I believe objectively AS WELL as subjectively is 'great copper'.So here I'll display one of two coppers I purchased at auction for less than half the price of that wonderfully 'stellar' Nova, and I will do this with the self-confidence that's been distilled through time from continuously refreshing knowledge.(please excuse my using the auctioneer's photos, until I have them in hand and can photograph them myself)I can only upload one photo for this post, so I'll use the obverse of the Nova Constellatio (or Constellatio Nova) just to demonstrate what I think is acceptably 'great copper', hopefully, to make a convincing point. When something like this comes along, and you realize that you're not going to find it by looking for it, it's time for passivity to change into activity and you go ahead and obtain it.Furthermore, I really enjoy going through auction archives, looking at the copper, and feeling satisfied...very satisfied...when I see copper that sold for $325.00 that is so far superior to copper that also sold for $18,000.00. And that ain't no joke!9o.jpg.661c4d2a4b79be67cec3a012015bf71c.jpg

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