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<p>[QUOTE="JPeace$, post: 2297098, member: 42727"]Welcome to the site [USER=76634]@xmaswife[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>The recommendations you receive will likely be skewed towards the posters collecting preference. Picking out coins for a collector is like picking out clothes. Unless you know their tastes, picking something they would really enjoy will be difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's why I would recommend a Type Set. The most popular was defined by Dansco. A well thought of maker of coin albums. It's called a Dansco 7070 type set. You don't have to collect the gold coins if you don't want to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Might I suggest that you purchase TPG (Third Party Graded) coins vs. raw coins for an album. I like the idea of purchasing a type set for your husband, but instead of buying the "raw" (ungraded) then putting them in an album, you could buy them already graded and use a spreadsheet to keep track of what you already own. Buying them graded by either PCGS or NGC (possibly ANACS) is the safest way to collect these coins. First, the TPG has authenticated the coin. Secondly, they've looked at it with trained eyes and determined whether it has any damage or has been cleaned, thus maintaining the value of the coin. And lastly, they assign a grade to the coin. The grade is subjective, but typically is within a point or two of the ANA standards. You can buy storage boxes to hold the graded coins. You see, believe it or not, there are many shady coin sellers out there and if you don't know what you are doing, you can get severely burned. BTW, I'm doing this very thing in building a type set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are examples of coins graded by the top two TPG's.</p><p><a href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61_zps65vfuk7c.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61_zps65vfuk7c.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61_zps65vfuk7c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61%20reverse_zpsbbe6laqj.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61%20reverse_zpsbbe6laqj.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61%20reverse_zpsbbe6laqj.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66_zps880f9dad.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66_zps880f9dad.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66_zps880f9dad.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66reverse_zps0951c40b.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66reverse_zps0951c40b.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66reverse_zps0951c40b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>If this idea interests you at all, PM me. I can send you the spreadsheet I've already put together to track a Type Set.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JPeace$, post: 2297098, member: 42727"]Welcome to the site [USER=76634]@xmaswife[/USER]. The recommendations you receive will likely be skewed towards the posters collecting preference. Picking out coins for a collector is like picking out clothes. Unless you know their tastes, picking something they would really enjoy will be difficult. That's why I would recommend a Type Set. The most popular was defined by Dansco. A well thought of maker of coin albums. It's called a Dansco 7070 type set. You don't have to collect the gold coins if you don't want to. Might I suggest that you purchase TPG (Third Party Graded) coins vs. raw coins for an album. I like the idea of purchasing a type set for your husband, but instead of buying the "raw" (ungraded) then putting them in an album, you could buy them already graded and use a spreadsheet to keep track of what you already own. Buying them graded by either PCGS or NGC (possibly ANACS) is the safest way to collect these coins. First, the TPG has authenticated the coin. Secondly, they've looked at it with trained eyes and determined whether it has any damage or has been cleaned, thus maintaining the value of the coin. And lastly, they assign a grade to the coin. The grade is subjective, but typically is within a point or two of the ANA standards. You can buy storage boxes to hold the graded coins. You see, believe it or not, there are many shady coin sellers out there and if you don't know what you are doing, you can get severely burned. BTW, I'm doing this very thing in building a type set. Here are examples of coins graded by the top two TPG's. [URL='http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61_zps65vfuk7c.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61_zps65vfuk7c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61%20reverse_zpsbbe6laqj.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Seated%20Half%20Dollars/1883%20PF61%20reverse_zpsbbe6laqj.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66_zps880f9dad.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66_zps880f9dad.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/jpcienkus/media/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66reverse_zps0951c40b.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b560/jpcienkus/Peace%20Dollars/1925MS66reverse_zps0951c40b.jpg[/IMG][/URL] If this idea interests you at all, PM me. I can send you the spreadsheet I've already put together to track a Type Set.[/QUOTE]
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