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<p>[QUOTE="KeyHunter, post: 8662499, member: 122558"]...what might be the better route? Purchase old proof sets to crack open or...</p><p><br /></p><p>...purchase coins separately. I'm catching up on a decade (or two +) post retirement to complete all denomination modern proofs. THEN start working back to some classic proofs.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are going into Lighthouse quadrum intercept square snaps and my binder albums. Binder pages are for the squares; I have separate pages for slabbed key date as purchased. Not all places sell the individual proof coins raw and IF they do their condition can be questionable as I've gotten SOME from big name 'net dealers covered in crud and fingerprints. Deep inside feel purchase old proof sets to crack out what I need, condition will be best...right from the mint minus a coin dealer handling raw middleman...and me getting their spoils.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KeyHunter, post: 8662499, member: 122558"]...what might be the better route? Purchase old proof sets to crack open or... ...purchase coins separately. I'm catching up on a decade (or two +) post retirement to complete all denomination modern proofs. THEN start working back to some classic proofs. These coins are going into Lighthouse quadrum intercept square snaps and my binder albums. Binder pages are for the squares; I have separate pages for slabbed key date as purchased. Not all places sell the individual proof coins raw and IF they do their condition can be questionable as I've gotten SOME from big name 'net dealers covered in crud and fingerprints. Deep inside feel purchase old proof sets to crack out what I need, condition will be best...right from the mint minus a coin dealer handling raw middleman...and me getting their spoils.[/QUOTE]
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