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<p>[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 1853015, member: 24544"]I have started a meager half cent collection by variety. I would say start with a budget and a goal in mind. Do you want to collect by variety, if so it's around 100 varieties, or you could do a date set which would be much easier. There are subgroups in there as well, you could do a date set of bust halfs, 1800 - 1808. IMHO the drapped bust half cents are available in nice grades for reasonable prices, the 1790's get expensive quick, while the late date's are just not that special too me.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of raw versus slabbed, buy what you like but if you go raw make sure you can tell the difference between original surfaces and non-original surfaces. Lastly, I would recommend putting the quality of the coin over the sharpness for two reasons. I think you will be happier with a nice original early half then with one that has been mucked with, and they are harder to come by which will lengthen your search; and isn't the searching 3/4ths of the fun <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 1853015, member: 24544"]I have started a meager half cent collection by variety. I would say start with a budget and a goal in mind. Do you want to collect by variety, if so it's around 100 varieties, or you could do a date set which would be much easier. There are subgroups in there as well, you could do a date set of bust halfs, 1800 - 1808. IMHO the drapped bust half cents are available in nice grades for reasonable prices, the 1790's get expensive quick, while the late date's are just not that special too me. In terms of raw versus slabbed, buy what you like but if you go raw make sure you can tell the difference between original surfaces and non-original surfaces. Lastly, I would recommend putting the quality of the coin over the sharpness for two reasons. I think you will be happier with a nice original early half then with one that has been mucked with, and they are harder to come by which will lengthen your search; and isn't the searching 3/4ths of the fun :)[/QUOTE]
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