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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3032904, member: 44316&quot;]This thread is wonderful, with many posters offering excellent advice that I could only second. For example, [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] has defined a mini-collection she can enjoy. I bet there are not more than three or four other collectors in the world she needs to compete with.&nbsp; (I&#039;m joking--there are probably no other collectors competing to fill&nbsp; the &quot;Pink Floyd&quot; part, but many for the &quot;animals&quot; part.). You can&#039;t say there are only a few trying to complete a set of Indian head cents!</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2001 I wrote a rant about rarity and value, noting the role of hole-filling:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/rarity.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/rarity.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/rarity.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you wish to understand a difference between US-coin collecting and ancient-coin collecting, read it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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