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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2821760, member: 10461&quot;]Well, then, your budget is certainly much healthier than mine!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My advice would be to use <a href="http://coinfacts.com/three_dollars/three_dollars.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinfacts.com/three_dollars/three_dollars.html" rel="nofollow">CoinFacts</a>, and read up on the specific characteristics of dates that interest you (they&#039;re all individually hyperlinked on that main page for the type).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, my personal experience with &quot;threeagles&quot; is limited to but one coin, which used to be on my &quot;<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">Holey Gold Hat</a>&quot; years ago.&nbsp; I paid $150-ish for it when I bought it, which wasn&#039;t much more than melt at the time.&nbsp; Some folks on PCGS/Collectors Universe told me that even though my example was scary enough to frighten small children, the 1860 was a bit of a &quot;sleeper&quot; date.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t know.&nbsp; I just thought it was a cool &quot;holey&quot; to hang on my hat.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the 19th century person who murdered the coin <font size="3">(and I don&#039;t mean the hole)</font> scrubbed out a potentially interesting old counterstamp when they attacked it.&nbsp; I was never able to make out what that said.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/The%20Holey%20Gold%20Hat/HGH-USA-Gold-300-1860.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>PS-</b> clicking on some of the individual CoinFacts pages by date, I didn&#039;t see much discussion of strikes- just the finest examples, yada yada yada.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the Breen Encyclopedia discusses some of that.&nbsp; I have a copy of it ... somewhere.&nbsp; But I&#039;ll defer to those with <strike><font size="3">deeper pockets</font></strike> more specialized knowledge for other, more detailed advice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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