Did an experiment: Old coins vs. eye appeal

[Count_Erfit]

Just for the heck of it, I arranged a couple trays of coins with both having rare coins, but one with type rarity and the other with condition rarity.

Both trays had equal "value."

 

Showed both to a friend who does not collect but knows I do. Overwhelming reaction FOR the eye appeal.

 

I wonder what it would be like if I just had VERY common (but pretty) coins in a third tray.

 

 

(Spose I should add) The "rarity" tray was far OLDER coins and he did remark how neat the styles were and how "gee, you can still see almost all of it." Even on F12's.

[RGT]

Just for the heck of it, I arranged a couple trays of coins with both having rare coins, but one with type rarity and the other with condition rarity.

Both trays had equal "value."

 

Showed both to a friend who does not collect but knows I do. Overwhelming reaction FOR the eye appeal.

 

Of course a non-collector wouldn't have a clue about rarity and would always go for eye appeal. What's not clear is which tray has more eye appeal. It seems you are implying that condition and eye appeal are the same thing.

 

I think an old worn Bust coin can have much more eye appeal than an MS 69 Kennedy any day.

 

I am also

[TomB]

I'm with RGT on this one, I really have no clue as to what you are trying to say as you seem to have left too much out as understood.

[XpipedreamR]

I like super eye-appealing MS coins. You can keep your circs and dinged-up uncs; I don't care WHAT the date or mint mark says.

 

 

 

[michael]

what about older coins say pre 1915 proof and biz strike coins that are technically really choice to superb gem grades with fantastic extraordinary exceptional qualities about them and also killer eye appeal to boot

 

maybe the best of both worlds

[Count_Erfit]

Okay....shudda bin a lil more explicit.

 

Examples were F-XF bust stuff in one tray (with a smattering of early crowns)

 

Other tray was MS and proof Seated, Morgan, and Gold (smattering of MS foreign)

 

There was some early gold in the circ one.

 

He is not completely ignorant. From conversations on coins, he knows that early is rare and so is "new."