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<p>[QUOTE="bkprewitt, post: 1495584, member: 33172"]When I first got into collecting about a year and a half ago, I for some reason thought I needed to buy every proof set out there, and had all years from 1964-2011. Then I realized that there was no good way to display them unless I bought expensive Eagle albums, and I didn't like keeping them all tucked away in boxes. So less than a year after I bought them, I sold them and managed to roughly break even. The only proof sets I have now two I'm holding onto for my little girls... a 2009 silver proof set and a 2012 silver proof set, marking the year of their respective births.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I like proof coins, so my personal compromise was to build a modern proof type set of NGC-graded coins, essentially defining a "modern" to be coins with an actual person on them (Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, Franklin, Kennedy, Ike, Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, etc.) plus an ASE. It won't be a true type set in that I won't be getting every state quarter and ATB reverse and every Presidential Dollar for the set, but I've compromised there limiting the state quarters to Massachusetts, Ohio, Texas, and New Mexico (states in which either my wife or I have lived), limited the ATB's to Acadia and Volcanoes (each of which have a personal significance to me), and limited the prezzies to Washington and Lincoln (because they're Washington and Lincoln -- we used to get a day off school for EACH guy's birthday when I was a kid). Also, where possible, the set includes or will include a silver coin (e.g., 1942P nickel, 1964 dime, 1964 quarter, all state and ATB quarters in silver, 1964 half, 40%-silver Ike and 40%-silver bicentennials). </p><p><br /></p><p>As for display, I'm putting them in Lighthouse Certified Coin pages - the set when complete will require 5 of these pages. I'm about 8 coins away from completion, and doing this set has been more fun and more challenging then simply buying proof sets. Plus each year, there's at least one more coin to add to the set (Sacagawea dollar).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhoo, if you like proofs, but dislike proof sets I'd try something like this, or like others have said, pop them out and put them into albums or 2x2's.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bkprewitt, post: 1495584, member: 33172"]When I first got into collecting about a year and a half ago, I for some reason thought I needed to buy every proof set out there, and had all years from 1964-2011. Then I realized that there was no good way to display them unless I bought expensive Eagle albums, and I didn't like keeping them all tucked away in boxes. So less than a year after I bought them, I sold them and managed to roughly break even. The only proof sets I have now two I'm holding onto for my little girls... a 2009 silver proof set and a 2012 silver proof set, marking the year of their respective births. That being said, I like proof coins, so my personal compromise was to build a modern proof type set of NGC-graded coins, essentially defining a "modern" to be coins with an actual person on them (Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, Franklin, Kennedy, Ike, Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, etc.) plus an ASE. It won't be a true type set in that I won't be getting every state quarter and ATB reverse and every Presidential Dollar for the set, but I've compromised there limiting the state quarters to Massachusetts, Ohio, Texas, and New Mexico (states in which either my wife or I have lived), limited the ATB's to Acadia and Volcanoes (each of which have a personal significance to me), and limited the prezzies to Washington and Lincoln (because they're Washington and Lincoln -- we used to get a day off school for EACH guy's birthday when I was a kid). Also, where possible, the set includes or will include a silver coin (e.g., 1942P nickel, 1964 dime, 1964 quarter, all state and ATB quarters in silver, 1964 half, 40%-silver Ike and 40%-silver bicentennials). As for display, I'm putting them in Lighthouse Certified Coin pages - the set when complete will require 5 of these pages. I'm about 8 coins away from completion, and doing this set has been more fun and more challenging then simply buying proof sets. Plus each year, there's at least one more coin to add to the set (Sacagawea dollar). Anyhoo, if you like proofs, but dislike proof sets I'd try something like this, or like others have said, pop them out and put them into albums or 2x2's.[/QUOTE]
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