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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1718739, member: 68&quot;]I had a little trouble with this thread in 2004 and even more now.&nbsp; I agree with the sentiment pretty well but not as much the way it is expressed.&nbsp; Certainly one is not usually going to do well financially buying very common coins but if you insist on collecting expensive coins like indian cents on a low budget there is simply no real alternative.&nbsp; There are things you can do to mitigate the problem like collecting Gems that are way out of the money because they have a slight rub.&nbsp; AU&#039;s can be steals in some cases.&nbsp; You can focus on varieties or on well matched coins.&nbsp; Many people don&#039;t care that much how they do financially and want to collect specific series that are over their heads.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The main thing that bothers me is the implication that &quot;cheap&quot; coins are necessarily common.&nbsp; In the past ten years many coins that were percieved to be common have proven to be highly elusive and have soared in price.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While I agree with National Dealer that inexpensive common coins are not a very good deal I think it should be pointed out that there&#039;s nothing wrong with inexpensive coins, all cheap coins aren&#039;t common, and even common coins have on rare occasion done well in the past.&nbsp; Nice attractive indian cents went from about 20c to $1 between 1995 and 2000, for instance.&nbsp; This being said go ahead and avoid &quot;cheap&quot; coins but never assume any coin is common unless you know it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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