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<p>[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 112734, member: 3011"]Prince,</p><p><br /></p><p>In your position, I wouldn't BUY any coins. Get some Whitman coin folders at Borders or whereever they carry them around you. Start collecting what you find in pocket change. When you get doubles of a date and mintmark, try to determine which is in better condition and try to grade it according to what you find in something like the Redbook. This is a basically cost free way to spend a couple of months to find out what type of coin you like. If you like cents, then look back in time at the indian head. If you like quarters, check out something like Barbers. If you just run around spending $10-$20 here and there on whatever looks good at the time, your going to find yourself down a couple of hundred dollars with a box of unrelated coins instead of a collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it's tough to go slow at first, but it's the right way to do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 112734, member: 3011"]Prince, In your position, I wouldn't BUY any coins. Get some Whitman coin folders at Borders or whereever they carry them around you. Start collecting what you find in pocket change. When you get doubles of a date and mintmark, try to determine which is in better condition and try to grade it according to what you find in something like the Redbook. This is a basically cost free way to spend a couple of months to find out what type of coin you like. If you like cents, then look back in time at the indian head. If you like quarters, check out something like Barbers. If you just run around spending $10-$20 here and there on whatever looks good at the time, your going to find yourself down a couple of hundred dollars with a box of unrelated coins instead of a collection. I know it's tough to go slow at first, but it's the right way to do it.[/QUOTE]
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