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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bluenose, post: 353143, member: 13428&quot;]Hello, all. New guy here. Please see my intro thread in the Intro forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve decided on some series that I&#039;d like to collect, and of them all the American Silver Eagle seems to be my preferred first series. I also like Morgans, Walking Liberty Halves, Buffalo Nickels, and Mercury Dimes. I&#039;ve done searches on ASE&#039;s and honestly the number of threads that are returned is overwhelming. Before I decide for sure and put in the research effort I wanted to find out about the series as a whole. I don&#039;t ever expect to get rich from collecting, but I do want to collect coins that others will find interesting and worth discussing and sharing. Is the ASE series such a series?</p><p><br /></p><p>The reasons I like ASEs are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I like silver.</p><p>2. I like the dimensions of the coin.</p><p>3. I love the Walking Liberty design. I know it&#039;s borrowed from the half, but it&#039;s still beautiful.</p><p>4. I love the eagle on the reverse. I wish it was bigger and filled more of the field, but I still like it. I also wish the reverse just read &quot;One Dollar&quot; without the &quot;1 Oz. Fine Silver&quot;, but I understand why it&#039;s there so I&#039;ll live.</p><p>5. It&#039;s still being made so I can get new years from the mint.</p><p>6. It&#039;s not an old series so I can get MS specimens all the way back to &#039;86 without spending thousands.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, there you have it. I believe the ASE is a great start for me, but if it&#039;s one of those niche series that no one really considers &quot;real&quot; coin collecting I&#039;d like to know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I read somewhere that the ASE is the most widely collected series? That surprises me since there isn&#039;t a lot of reference materials for it. Do you think the author of the article I read was including people that buy ASE&#039;s as strictly bullion investments?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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