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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 6639239, member: 101855&quot;]I collected the half cents by Cohen variety in the 1980s. It was a lot of fun, but after a while you hit a wall and can’t go any further with varieties. I got within four varieties of having all of the Draped Bust varieties. A few collectors had them, and a few collectors had more than one example. </p><p><br /></p><p>Die state collectors really got to me. Almost all of these varieties are rarer than most any “modern” key date coin that you can name. The supply of these coins is limited. Some of these guys would line up as many as 9 or 10 examples of the same variety. The 1804 C-6 comes immediately to mind. That meant that finding just one example of some of these coins became harder for beginners and intermediate collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I felt that I almost had an obligation to sell my duplicates when I upgraded a variety for that reason. Ultimately I pulled the pug and used my half cent die variety collection as seed money for my coin dealer business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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