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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roughwater, post: 7811963, member: 122150&quot;]Appreciate the info.&nbsp; Somewhere along the way in my collecting I didn&#039;t seem to have valued the wheat pennies.&nbsp; Most of my early collecting came from metal detecting and I had put the wheaties in a plastic milk carton and somehow lost track of it between jobs, moving and wives.&nbsp; But I had somehow kept my silver, most Indians and the few cheap coins I had actually bought.&nbsp; At least now I have a fair start to a penny collection. Around the east coast the &quot;S&quot; and D mint pennies are harder to come by and I have quite a few now.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a total disappointment but it probably shortened my coin buying learning curve somewhat.&nbsp; I was a little skeptical actually about this endeavor which is why I thought it good to share it with other folks who may be able to learn from it as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I started really semi-seriously collecting a couple months ago my goal was to try to put together a collection of good quality American coins I didn&#039;t have and ones I never heard of. When I started I didn&#039;t know there were 2 and 3 cent coins out there or many other types of American coins.&nbsp; But my goals keep evolving some and somehow coins that once just seemed like something we keep in our pockets I now value differently.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s even a good thing but I see a certain beauty in coins now. It seems like it could be a bad thing to become emotionally attached or attracted to coins. The bad is that I&#039;m not content with good plus examples of coins for the most part now.&nbsp; Now I only mostly only want to collect very fine and up, more so up which gets expensive.&nbsp; Of course buying mint sets seems to be one solution to be able to have the finest examples but another side of that is that as you all know the toned coins also have a strong attraction too. Anyway, now I feel the need to buy some penny folders to put my expensive pennies in.&nbsp; I&#039;m on my last wife I think and I probably won&#039;t be moving cause my wife don&#039;t want to so maybe I can keep track of these pennies and add a few more some of which I hope will be less expensive. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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