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More to the point, how did the above posting make you feel ?

Yes, I find myself doing the same. You just wonder about the many hands they've passed through and tills they've been in. Not to mention the countless pockets and purses, as well as the places they've been spent. Actually, to a certain extent you also wonder about the high grade specimens. Were they specially saved by the collectors of their day, or did they become lost in some drawer or down the back of an old settee, only to emerge more than a hundred years later? I've a little personal theory on that one: I tend to think that if the edge is as lustrous as the faces of the coin, then they've been lost. If the edge is well toned as compared to the remainder of the coin, they've been collected, but have innumerable edge handling marks.

Let me try ETA - no problem here. Maybe issue has passed.

Look at the sellers name!!!!!! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-1p-OLD-one-penny-1971-coin-uk-sterling-EXTREMELY-Rare/163924210633?hash=item262aa4f3c9:g:1EkAAOSwJ6JdgiNt

It really depends what you're collecting. For post-1816 I'd agree with most of the above but for earlier milled and hammered my impression is that F coins have done reasonably well and VF's a bit better. It's taken me 20+ years (before then I didn't worry about grades at all) even to eliminate, with one exception, the words Poor, Fair and VG from my collection! I'd never collect much above VF anyway as part of the fun is imagining the coins having circulated/used by people hundreds of years ago.