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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2106227, member: 72818&quot;]As someone who is returning to collecting after being forced to &#039;liquidate&#039; all my numerous holdings a year ago..I also am putting together a &#039;nice&#039; Type collection along the lines you are..</p><p><br /></p><p>I love the look of &#039;Proofs&#039; but my experience is that they seem to add little or nothing to the resale value compared to MS grades...I think you&#039;re price range is reasonable for non-scarcities etc. and You should be able to get precisely what you want...especially bidding from some reputable auction houses like Heritage or almost anywhere else....and Heritage provides a coin value service so you can &#039;search&#039; your choice of coin by grade and see the actual buyers price...and the estimated values at wholesale and retail..</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll post a few I have recently purchased in the days and weeks to come...file photos since my photographic skills and equipment are something less than good LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>Proofs are a method of production but as far as i know the # grade roughly equates with a MS version...and proofs lose value rapidly with even the smallest imperfection through storage, handling and so on..That said, I still plan to have a few proofs in my Type set, mostly more recent issues for eye appeal...i.e. SBA, Ike&#039;s&nbsp; and others that are primarily only worth about face value....at least when you try to sell them LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind, I am not an &#039;expert&#039; but merely a collector who is familiar with numismatics after years and decades of interest and collecting..</p><p><br /></p><p>Best of luck Doug[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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