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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3076567, member: 10461"]Welcome! I agree with all the positive commentary above.  It sounds like you've got the right attitude, and while a midgrade 1903 Indian cent is a reasonably humble coin in terms of monetary value, it's historical and collectible.  (And I personally find that more interesting than most of the modern, miniscule "errors" we see posted here so often). We all have different budgets and tastes, and finding your own path is a good thing.  This hobby can be enjoyed on any budget from tiny to huge, and there are good and not-so-good choices within all of those price tiers. "Buy the best you can afford" is reasonably sound advice.  Being a low-budget collector with a sense of what's a good value within his own budget can be better than being a deep-pockets guy who's just throwing fat sums into his collection without having enough knowledge about what he's doing. Your Indian cent makes me nostalgic for the time I put together a Dansco album of them in G-VF condition, back in the early 1990s.  It's one of the few US series I've completed, though I didn't have the 1869 overdate and the more esoteric varieties- just the basic Red Book dates.  (Yes, I did get the 1877 and 1909-S.)[/QUOTE]