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<p>[QUOTE="No_Ragrets, post: 26514990, member: 151874"]If you're planning on buying raw coins, try to acclimate yourself on determining if it's been cleaned or not, and spotting potential counterfeits. That alone could save you lots of heartache and headaches. If you are buying graded then that should be fairly straightforward and easy to avoid.</p><p><br /></p><p>For hundreds and into the low thousands for individual coins you really have the world at your fingertips. With the exception of a few key dates and harder-to-find (in good condition) coins, you should be able to get an absolutely beautiful set of Morgans. Heck, I think the most I've spent on a Morgan so far has been my '85-CC GSA and that was around $800 IIRC. I'm [very] slowly trying to assemble a BU Morgan business strike set and many of them were well under that $800 mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking forward to more of your posts here, and I'm a sucker for a pretty Morgan, blast white or toned!</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: my loupe is a cheapo from Amazon that my wife bought me for $10-15. It's got little LED'S on it and 2 different magnification lenses. I see there's a Nikon loupe out but at $50 I don't think I want to try it yet lol[ATTACH=full]1690143[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="No_Ragrets, post: 26514990, member: 151874"]If you're planning on buying raw coins, try to acclimate yourself on determining if it's been cleaned or not, and spotting potential counterfeits. That alone could save you lots of heartache and headaches. If you are buying graded then that should be fairly straightforward and easy to avoid. For hundreds and into the low thousands for individual coins you really have the world at your fingertips. With the exception of a few key dates and harder-to-find (in good condition) coins, you should be able to get an absolutely beautiful set of Morgans. Heck, I think the most I've spent on a Morgan so far has been my '85-CC GSA and that was around $800 IIRC. I'm [very] slowly trying to assemble a BU Morgan business strike set and many of them were well under that $800 mark. Looking forward to more of your posts here, and I'm a sucker for a pretty Morgan, blast white or toned! Edit: my loupe is a cheapo from Amazon that my wife bought me for $10-15. It's got little LED'S on it and 2 different magnification lenses. I see there's a Nikon loupe out but at $50 I don't think I want to try it yet lol[ATTACH=full]1690143[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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