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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gabatgh, post: 216657, member: 4148&quot;]The real problem with coins is what my father-in-law called &quot;fly speck&quot; collecting. The coins and tokens he had are quite old. The difference of one to another might be that this coin might have a tree with four leaves on a branch, while the same coin next to it might have five leaves on a branch. </p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t even get me started on who decides what condition something is in. I&#039;ve seen dealers send something to all three houses to get graded and slabbed, and each one comes back with a different grade and the difference between them could mean hundreds of dollars of difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;ve got on my desk right now is old stuff too. This particular box has</p><p>seven Connecticut coppers</p><p>four New Jersey coppers</p><p>three Vermont coppers</p><p>two Mass coppers</p><p>three Constellatio nova</p><p>two Fugio cents</p><p>two North American tokens</p><p>one 1760/1700 Voce Populi half cent</p><p>one 1794 Franklin Press Token</p><p>one 1788 George III halfpenny</p><p><br /></p><p>None of them are slabbed. I might have to put them in auction. Some of them are census, some of them seem really nice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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