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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bones-65, post: 8257770, member: 136030&quot;]Well, I&#039;ve been working on my Lincoln set on and off sense around 81/82 at first I wasn&#039;t really that serious, I metal detect and so some of those ended up in my collection early on. As the collection started to grow I tended to get a little more serious with it.</p><p>I had some bucket list coins that I thought wasn&#039;t likely going to show up,</p><p>09SVDB, 55DDO, I thought maybe a 14-D to be possible, maybe an 09-S.</p><p>So, not with total intentions but the route I worked on was filling holes, get the collection, I did decide pretty early on to upgrade the metal detecting ones..</p><p>So, I got down to where there wasn&#039;t many holes to fill, and maybe 4 years ago I bought a 09-S, then about a year later I got the 14-D well the collection became more enticing. I started looking around for a few badly needed upgrades.</p><p>Ebay raw was great for me, I&#039;m talking there was a lot of .50 and $2.00 deals and no worries about counterfeit with the super common coins.</p><p>Then my album binder from the 80&#039;s looked like crap, so I bought two new albums and all new sleeves, divided the wheats into one album the rest into the other.</p><p>Pretty nice, then those missing holes created more of an itch. Also by now a good bit of the 59 and up was getting a lot of UNC add ins.</p><p>When it came time to fill the 09SVDB hole I decided I didn&#039;t want to us household finances to buy it. I started collecting BAGS of smashed aluminum cans! all my pocket change, copper wire, and if I did something for somebody and they wanted to give me $10 or $20 I tossed that into the pot.</p><p>And I bought it, I&#039;ll spare you the story of how I got ripped off on the first one being a counterfeit!!!! That about ended my collecting days, but I ended up with my bucket list 09SVDB.</p><p>Then I jumped back over to doing more low cost upgrades for awhile. But I had the date range complete from 09 to current!</p><p>I found that there were so many on a budget UNC Lincoln&#039;s even in two or three coins sets for a couple of bucks that I bought and added to the Memorials.</p><p>Then the collection had a LOT of appeal (motivation) my finances changed in my favor and I went out on a limb and bought a 55DDO I told the wife that that coin was an investment, sense 1955 this coin has never went down in value! (remember investment)</p><p>Over the past year I&#039;ve been working my way backwards adding the proofs, I&#039;m back to 1938. I think I can pull off a 37, that 36 may be a stumbling block and beyond that forget it.</p><p>Seriously, coins like the 09SVDB, 14-D, 55DDO can be thought of as an investment. I can sell my 09SVDB, 55DDO, and 14-D for $3,200 Ask the wife what&#039;s she owns that&#039;s worth $200.00 on resale? LoL!</p><p>Same with my guns, I can&#039;t say I&#039;ve ever made money on them but I&#039;ve never kept them long enough, but it hard times when we needed money, it was my purchases that turned enough revenue that actually made a difference, she told me &quot;I don&#039;t have anything that&#039;s worth anything to sell&quot; But she spent just as much money on garbage as I spent. I&#039;ve no plans on selling my coins, but if I got hungry, or needed a house payment, etc.... I would, and she&#039;s got a $500.00 iphone that&#039;s worth about $20.00</p><p>Some kind of an Apple Tablet, that cost $600.00 that&#039;s worth about $50.00 now (and dropping)</p><p>For your bucket list coins, think investment!</p><p>I know a guy who the only thing he wants his wife to get him for a birthday gifts and Christmas gifts is some coin he has on a list of coins, she&#039;s figured where and how to get them, she&#039;s happy, he&#039;s happy!</p><p>Think outside the box! When I started looking for little pockets of extra cash, it sometimes showed up in unexpected places (Honest Money).</p><p>You can work it out and get that 09SVDB, JUST be very careful that you get a genuine one, they&#039;re fake abound.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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