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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 1599821, member: 9270&quot;]I strongly agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>My policy is to select an issue I&#039;m interested in collecting then, based on catalog value, decide on a minimum grade I&#039;ll accept.</p><p>I want coins to grade high enough so that if I show them to someone they will get a good idea of what the US Mint had in mind when they were struck.</p><p>And based on the best guess about my future financial situation I want to buy a coin that I don&#039;t expect to upgrade at a later date.</p><p>And degree of interest is another factor, i.e., the more an issue grabs me the higher the minimum grade I&#039;ll accept will be.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this means is that there are some issues I will ignore.</p><p>- A set of SLQ&#039;s is NOT on my wantlist; no way I&#039;d ever expect to be able to afford a 1916.</p><p>- No sets of Seated Liberty nor Barber coins; low interest level because of the large size of those sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like the concept of a type set.</p><p>It only takes one coin of each design thus common dates totally satisfy this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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