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I would buy any gold coin in any condition because it would be my first but hopefully not just a gold plated or painted coin but a solid one.
Come to think of it, that too - if I saw a gold coin for sale, US or otherwise, that I could afford, I would probably buy it regardless of condition (short of my "stuck in a bunch of toxic waste" example, anyway).
Sadly the last time this happened was in 2010, and back then I wasn't much of a coin buyer.
(There are, as I mentioned, some non-US coins that I'm actively looking for worn damaged examples of because that's all I could afford. I don't believe this is the case for any
US coins, however.)