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<p>[QUOTE="Moen1305, post: 172854, member: 2544"]There is no question that putting together a set on your own is more fun and rewarding than buying a set already completed. Having said that, there are certainly exceptions. My goal is to collect three sets of every type of coin I am interested in so building three different sets can get kind of old after a while. I usually build by buying a "Lot" of coins in the series, thats coins in a Lot. Then I fill in the remainder with single purchases and keys.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been tempted to buy completed sets after the first one or two are done but I usually end up with extra coins from the first two sets and use them to begin the thrid set. Buying an already completed set would leave me with extra perfectly good coins with nowhere to put them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never bought completed sets outside of the ones that come with the purchase of someone else's entire collection and darn few of those. I have discovered though, that buying entire collections actually saves money in the long run. It also takes my collecting in directions I may not have gone without the influence of these other collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Moen1305, post: 172854, member: 2544"]There is no question that putting together a set on your own is more fun and rewarding than buying a set already completed. Having said that, there are certainly exceptions. My goal is to collect three sets of every type of coin I am interested in so building three different sets can get kind of old after a while. I usually build by buying a "Lot" of coins in the series, thats coins in a Lot. Then I fill in the remainder with single purchases and keys. I have been tempted to buy completed sets after the first one or two are done but I usually end up with extra coins from the first two sets and use them to begin the thrid set. Buying an already completed set would leave me with extra perfectly good coins with nowhere to put them. I have never bought completed sets outside of the ones that come with the purchase of someone else's entire collection and darn few of those. I have discovered though, that buying entire collections actually saves money in the long run. It also takes my collecting in directions I may not have gone without the influence of these other collectors.[/QUOTE]
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