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<p>[QUOTE="BigsWick, post: 428658, member: 3534"]I completed my set of Frankins maybe a year ago (are sets ever <b><i>really </i></b>complete?) and began by buying a Dansco album. Sounds like you are going for higher quality than I did, but I had bought a large lot of circulated Franklins several years before that had just been sitting in a mint bag. I pulled them out, sorted them, took the nicest ones, and placed them in the album. I was missing several- almost all key dates- and I slowly accrued them over the next six months or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found the '49-S in a roll of Kennedys- MS62 or 63 too with some purple toning- pretty neat find. The rest (mostly mid 1950s) I bought slabbed in MS-63 and 64 and cracked them out. Now the ones I pulled from the lot I bought (XFs/AUs) look kind of crummy next to the crack outs, so I guess I'll replace them one day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BigsWick, post: 428658, member: 3534"]I completed my set of Frankins maybe a year ago (are sets ever [B][I]really [/I][/B]complete?) and began by buying a Dansco album. Sounds like you are going for higher quality than I did, but I had bought a large lot of circulated Franklins several years before that had just been sitting in a mint bag. I pulled them out, sorted them, took the nicest ones, and placed them in the album. I was missing several- almost all key dates- and I slowly accrued them over the next six months or so. I found the '49-S in a roll of Kennedys- MS62 or 63 too with some purple toning- pretty neat find. The rest (mostly mid 1950s) I bought slabbed in MS-63 and 64 and cracked them out. Now the ones I pulled from the lot I bought (XFs/AUs) look kind of crummy next to the crack outs, so I guess I'll replace them one day.[/QUOTE]
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