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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 2828423, member: 87737&quot;]When I&#039;m working on a set, I try to get as high a grade as financially feasible, and that they all have a similar look. I just completed a Franklin set, and in doing so, I think I ended up with 3 sets, as I would constantly upgrade the main set. Proofs were not necessary, but there are quite a few, but only to add some pizzazz to the set. It&#039;s mostly a high AU-MS set with some proofs thrown in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t look for special finishes, unless you consider proofs in that bunch, and it depends on the set I&#039;m doing. I don&#039;t do moderns really, so most of the classics didn&#039;t have &#039;special finishes&#039;. Moderns to me are post-1964, but I will go with &#039;moderns&#039; only to complete a set. Only other moderns are from birth-years for me and the kids (&#039;65, &#039;96, &#039;00).</p><p><br /></p><p>Errors are fun, and I&#039;ll grab what I can, when I can, even if it&#039;s a coin I don&#039;t specifically collect. </p><p><br /></p><p>Varieties are type specific for me, unless I fall into one. As an example, I wasn&#039;t planning on getting any of the Washington DDO&#039;s, but ended up with a &#039;34 and a &#039;37 DDO for stupid low money (like seriously stupid low). However, with large cents, I&#039;m now looking at adding varieties to my completed (well almost) set, while I&#039;m working on my second set. Trouble with that is there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of varieties in that series, and I&#039;m not rich. If I can add a variety, I do. My Flying Eagles set is pretty close to having all the varieties, but I have a hard time justifying the price being asked for the couple I don&#039;t have, so I may never get those, unless I get lucky and cherrypick &#039;em. I do love cherry-picking though!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also one of the &#039;but what catches my eye&#039; types. It can be ridiculous at times. The other night I bought 2 Great Britain coins; a 1 penny and a twopence (both 1797), because they are HUGE and HEAVY. Not because I collect BG coinage, not because I needed them for any reason, just because they have a coolness factor, and they were inexpensive. That&#039;s the fun part of the hobby for me, getting something not because a book tells me I need it, but because I like and want it. I&#039;ll buy anything, including AT coins, details coins, cleaned, etc., as long as it appeals to me, and the price is right. It&#039;s fun, and if you&#039;re not having fun doing it, you shouldn&#039;t be doing it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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