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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SportsDen, post: 2945238, member: 77549&quot;]I also prefer the visual of coins in the album, as opposed to having some in slabs, but as you mention, there are practical reasons to keep the slabbed coins intact, and I just couldn&#039;t bring myself to cracking them out. I do own the slabbed coins as marked, and I&#039;d post a photo of the 09-S VDB, but I can&#039;t get to my bank just now. Perhaps I will photograph it next time I&#039;m there, and post it as requested. </p><p><br /></p><p>As to the rest of my set being &quot;mid-grade circulated&quot;, this is not the case, since most of the complete set through 2009 Memorial ARE uncirculated (all UNCs are not red, especially older ones), and I&#039;m upgrading the others as I can afford to do so. All of the circulated coins are on the pictured page, except for the 22 Plain. The 14-D is no small change (nor is the 22 Plain), and frankly, it&#039;s pretty attractive as is. </p><p><br /></p><p>One more point on the grade/condition of the coins. This was my father&#039;s collection, and all of his coins in this set are uncirculated, including the ones I chose to have graded/slabbed. The circulated coins are ones I added, since it was all I could comfortably afford. He gave the collection to me just before he passed in 1987, expressing regrets for not having completed it, and I promised him I would do so, although perhaps not with all coins being uncirculated. I did the the best I could, prioritizing keeping my promise to complete the set over adding only uncirculated coins. Had I decided to add only uncirculated coins to the ~10 vacant holes, I would not have completed the album yet, and I&#039;m in my 70&#039;s. I think he is pleased that I kept my promise, as am I.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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