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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 910098, member: 19456&quot;]I prefer circulated as a general rule. I love history...and circulated coins MADE history. However, I prefer uncirculated for some designs. And I like having at least one uncirculated example for each design (type) although that really only gets me back to the 1930s, and not even in every US design. I have 4 uncirculated Mercury dimes, two uncirculated Silver quarters (that I won in a contest on CoinTalk!), and a handfull of uncirculated wheats. My oldest uncirculated nickel would probably be 80s only, nickels seem to take a beating around here. That&#039;s it!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For modern coins though, I try to get the best I can, and I am always on the lookout for upgrades. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For cents, I want full mint red, barring that, I want it to be a nice even Milk Chocolate color. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do save circulated examples of newer stuff if I like the way it looks. Even if I have an uncirculated example already in my collection, if I see a coin with an interesting wear pattern, I save it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the early State Quarters are now showing some significant wear on them, and some of them look pretty good when they are worn. I think Virginia&#039;s is the nicest worn State quarter so far. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I collect by date and mintmark...for most of the coins, the ones that would be considered uncirculated by the people who are into assigning grades would really only be from the mid 1990s to today, not inclusive of all years/mintmarks on any of the denominations. But I do have some uncirculated examples in some of them going back.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One other additional note: I don&#039;t like Uncirulated Morgans. I know they are supposedly the most popular coin series in history, but I just don&#039;t like them. All of them that I have seen, probably in the lower triple digits (most of that number at my one and only to date show) just didn&#039;t look good to me. I don&#039;t like coins with marks all over them, and Morgans seem to have them more than any other design. I think, in all those coins, and all the coins I&#039;ve seen on the net, I&#039;ve only seen three uncirculated Morgans that I actually liked. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Since I am not that big a fan of them even in circulated grades, I have not paid too much attention to circulated examples, but lately I have seen some that I actually liked, so I have been paying a little more attention to them. I have never purchased one, though! (actually, since I started buying coins sporadically, I have not purchased any silver dollars, even the Peace which is one of my all time favorite coin designs...can&#039;t afford them!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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