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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1509731, member: 5233&quot;]Well...it has been a long road for me when it comes to collecting.&nbsp; Because of my many years of schooling, I have had very little extra money to put into my hobbies...including my coins.&nbsp; What I have in my collection is 95% low grade pieces that aren&#039;t worth much.&nbsp; I have assembled this collection over probably the last 15 years.&nbsp; I have decided that it is time to go in a completely different direction.</p><p><br /></p><p>First off, I got my first paycheck in the mail yesterday...it is for the first 9 days of my career as a dentist and it is the largest paycheck I have ever received.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a ton of money...as I am working for a company as an associate and I have massive student loan payments, but it is enough to allow me to set a little aside for my hobbies.&nbsp; I have discussed it with my wife and we decided we can afford $150 each per month to put towards our own interests.&nbsp; This allows us to still pay all our bills and save what we believe is a responsible amount.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have decided that I will use a portion of this &quot;monthly allowance&quot; towards my coin hobby.&nbsp; I also have decided to go through my collection and sell off the bulk of it to &quot;reinvest&quot; into the hobby.&nbsp; I find myself very unsatisfied with my current collection because I spent so much of my time trying to &quot;fill holes&quot; in albums that I neglected to focus on quality.&nbsp; It was the mistake of a young enthusiast.&nbsp; I have spent the last several months trying to decide what &quot;set&quot; to collect and have floated a bunch of ideas but I didn&#039;t fall in love with a single one.&nbsp; My interests are very wide and I don&#039;t want to focus on just one thing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the time being, I am going to collect &quot;singles.&quot;&nbsp; I am compiling a list of individual coins that I want in my collection and I am going to save up and purchase them.&nbsp; I may only buy 15-20 coins per year during the next few years but each piece will be individually selected for my collection.&nbsp; They will be coins from many different series...in many ways this will resemble a type set although not all types will be included.&nbsp; Just individual coins that peak my interest for various reasons.&nbsp;&nbsp; At this time (for US coins), I only plan to buy slabbed coins...preferably PCGS but also NGC.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I feel this plan will be extremely satisfying and very enjoyable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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