Coins Who Did Their Time — The workhorses

About This Set: These specimens have all "put in the work" as coins and done their jobs to the utmost as part of the economy. In that sense I personally identify with them, as a normal guy who works and gets tired and worn out.

There's something exclusive and snobbish about high grades on old coins sometimes; they were put away decades or centuries ago and have often never done a day's work as a coin. Only more wealthy collectors can afford to buy one, and most numismatists will never find one themselves. Pedigree is everything and only the high class have value, like aristocrats.

A good lowball feels more like a humble grandparent who has lived a full life; they may not have a huge inheritance to leave you, but they're full of wisdom and love.