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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 951208, member: 25270&quot;]I was always saving wheat pennies and older nickels and the occasional silver or foreign coin I&#039;d get in circulation until in the last year I decided to start collecting in a more serious way. The first thing I did was get Whitman folders for all the coins still in circulation and try to fill those just from the change I and my parents had in our houses. There were a few dates that I just couldn&#039;t seem to find for whatever reason, and if they were older I went ahead and bought a coin for 99 cents on eBay. If it&#039;s newer, I figure I&#039;ll get it in change sooner or later. Then I moved on to some of the coins no longer in circulation but not expensive. This includes pre-1960 Jefferson nickels, Mercury dimes and Roosevelt silver dimes. The local coin shop has bulk bins of those where you can search through for the right dates and it&#039;s all the same prices. I&#039;m looking for coins that look nice but I&#039;m not worried if it&#039;s mint or toned or whatever. I&#039;d just like the best coin I can find without paying a premium. After I got all the coins like that that I could find, I had to start going after more expensive coins, but I still more look for an average coin with the right date and mint mark than an uncirculated one. To me it just doesn&#039;t matter the condition really. I don&#039;t want it all beat up, but as long as I can read the date and see the effigy on the coin I&#039;m usually happy. I would never buy a slabbed coin because I like something I can touch and have no interest in paying a premium. That&#039;s just how I am. I&#039;d rather buy 10 beat up coins from the 1800s than one really nice one for the same price. The most I&#039;ve paid for a coin is about $15. I&#039;ll go higher eventually but I like the feeling of going to a coin shop and coming home with a bag of coins. I try not to spend more than about $100 on a visit to the coin shop, so coming home with two coins that were $50 each wouldn&#039;t be so rewarding. I&#039;m not worried about reselling these coins and it&#039;s really just something for me to enjoy right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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