I had trouble finding a suitable monitor too. I wasn't prepared to spend over $500, so that ruled out the upper class stuff.
What I was left with is the large array of 1080p monitors, or the smaller selection of 1920 x 1200 displays. The latter at 24" is what I was determined to get, but they all seem to be made with LG panels that have awful grainy glittery anti-glare coating that I found, by first hand experience, intolerable.
So over the past two years and three monitors I finally have an acceptable 1080p monitor for my purposes - a Samsung S22A650D. I still wish I could have a 24" 1200 line monitor like this, but this series is all 1080p.
The other two monitors I had to give away - one a nice Dell IPS unit with the awful coating, the other a Lenovo TN unit with dreadful viewing angles - so bad that I could not see the whole panel without half of it exhibiting color distortions.
My conclusion, based on limited experience, is that the Samsung anti-glare works for me whereas I cannot tolerate the LG anti-glare coating, and that VA panels are good enough for me while IPS panels are even better except for the coating.