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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1782296, member: 26302&quot;]I do both. I buy whatever I feel like, but have bigger concentrations in areas that interest me overall.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I understand what you are saying about the satisfaction of striving to complete a set, but that is only for some people. That is the reason I went away from US collecting, I hated the oppressiveness of what others determined I had to buy in order to have a &quot;set&quot;. I refuse to buy an overpriced S VDB, so to US collectors I am not an &quot;advanced&quot; collector. In ancients, since there can never be a complete &quot;set&quot;, you are free to collect what YOU want.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I also somewhat disagree about value. Unless you build a very impressive set that gets credentialed, I do not understand how EVERY collection is only valued based upon the sum of the coins. Most people do not wish to buy a complete collection, so almost every &quot;set&quot; someone collects will get broken up when sold. I understand how a mishmash of coins might be hard to appraise accurately, or how it might be hard to shop it to a specialist if you have a variety of coins, but simply do not comprehend how you say almost any collection is worth more than the sum of its parts. Certainly, a collection with desirable coins like key dates or high grades is more valuable and easier to sell than a bunch of low grade common dates, but I would say a set of miscellaneous coins that are problem free and in attractive collector grade is very easy to sell.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Maybe you are confusing this issue with too many collectors bad habit of buying problem coins? Any rare coin in collector grade that does not have issues is easy to sell. Problem coins are the bain of most &quot;accumulators&quot;, because they never educated themselves enough to know what is a good coin and what isn&#039;t.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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