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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bmac_228, post: 507378, member: 16995&quot;]I&#039;ve been &quot;collecting&quot; coins for an entire month, and I have to be honest I&#039;m already overwhelmed!&nbsp; Collecting something is nothing new for me, I&#039;ve collected baseball cards for 25 years and have a pretty nice collection, if I say so myself, starting with 1909 T206 cards through the present, with a majority between 1952 and 1975.&nbsp; I remember thinking 99 cents was outrageous for a pack of 1989 Upper Deck cards and these days guys shell out $200 bucks plus for certain packs.&nbsp; I was around when PSA broke into the hobby and began grading cards and watching those graded cards skyrocket as people digged deeper into their wallets.&nbsp; It&#039;s a viscious hobby, so just after this past Christmas I was watching our babysitter sort through a stack of coins in those white cardboard 2 x 2 holders and had an idea that maybe coin collecting would be a little more relaxing, not that I&#039;m going to sell of my card collection anytime soon, but maybe a change of pace would be nice.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A month ago I made my first purchase, a &quot;complete&quot; set of Lincoln Memorials in BU condition, not even sure I knew what that meant, from 1959 to 2008.&nbsp; I thought for 20 bucks this was the hobby for me!&nbsp; While the coins really were in very nice condition, I soon realized it wasn&#039;t a &quot;complete&quot; set, no proofs from &#039;75 on and no small date/large date variations, etc.&nbsp; This rocked my world, I&#039;ve collected baseball cards for 25 years, I know what a complete set is! So I began looking around online and found out what I could about the Lincoln Memorial pennies, enough to know I will NEVER have a COMPLETE set of them.&nbsp; I finally made it to a local coin shop and nosed around at something better than plastic tubes to keep my new collection in and decided on a Dansco Lincoln Memorial w/ Proofs album for 35 bucks, I was told Dansco is THE best in the business.&nbsp; As I&#039;m transferring my coins, I realize Dansco doesnt&#039; include every coin for each year, so now my analaties kick in and I&#039;m freaking out about how best to store my precious Lincolns.&nbsp; I decide that I will keep the Dansco album and whatever coins I need for the set that I dont have room for, I&#039;ll buy them graded.&nbsp; So then I had to research who I thought would be better, NGC or PCGS, they both claim to be the best so I have no idea.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Right in the middle of my Lincoln dilemma I decide I want to put together the presidential $1 coin set, since its only 2 years in the making.&nbsp; So I buy all the uncirculated coins at the local coin shop, jump on Ebay and buy both Satin finish sets, and find the proof sets as well, so now I have all the presidential coins! NOT, now I find out that there are 2 positions for each coin plus a handful of varieties, and while I&#039;m on PCGS.com I discover not only can I do a complete set for those, there&#039;s also a First Strike set that you can put together. FANTASTIC, just what someone like me needs to know.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After reading around a little bit just last night I&#039;m not certain anymore that the Dansco albums are a good choice for long term storage and I can&#039;t get enough info on whats better, the cardboard 2 x 2&#039;s with mylar or coin flips that do not contain pvc or plasticizers, or whatever.&nbsp; Now I have all these coins and I cant sleep at night for fear they are gonna tarnish and rot away right before my very eyes and I&#039;ll be out what money I&#039;ve spent so far.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So basically in a month&#039;s time I&#039;ve realize with the coin hobby, you&#039;re more than likely never going to put together a complete set of anything, and whatever you decide to store them in will eventually ruin them so they are worthless anyway.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m not a drinker... but I&#039;m close![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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