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<p>[QUOTE="catbox_9, post: 186659, member: 7344"]I'll just spend less on other stuff. I just got into coins a little over a year ago. I stick to mostly "junk" silver with some free/almost free ASEs (check out reader's digest, etc. for ads) and a couple of other random coins that non-collectors have never heard of i.e. trimes, half dimes (you mean a nickel?), etc. In December I bought the 2004 and 2005 silver proof sets from usmint.gov and I signed up for the silver proof and uncirculated subscription programs. It now looks like the presidential dollars won't be in there so I'll sign up for those, too. I also bought a 2003 silver proof set and 1987 (my birth year) prestige proof set (w/ Constitution dollar) and 1987 mint set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I don't plan on buying a ton of mint products, I'll just cut back a little on junk silver and spend that money on my mint subscriptions and with the time I save (less time on eBay looking for silver) I'll go through rolls of change to fill my albums (I can't find a 1968 penny anywhere, it's the only penny I'm missing from 1940-1990. I also am missing about 7 cents from 1991-2006 (all Philadelphia) since I live in CA. I need to go back east and buy about 10 rolls of everything to get those P mint marks, they're pretty tough finds here.</p><p><br /></p><p>That post was pretty long and most of it had nothing to do with the original topic but oh well, I don't post here often but in the incredibly unlikely event someone noticed me before and wanted to know more about me, there you go![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="catbox_9, post: 186659, member: 7344"]I'll just spend less on other stuff. I just got into coins a little over a year ago. I stick to mostly "junk" silver with some free/almost free ASEs (check out reader's digest, etc. for ads) and a couple of other random coins that non-collectors have never heard of i.e. trimes, half dimes (you mean a nickel?), etc. In December I bought the 2004 and 2005 silver proof sets from usmint.gov and I signed up for the silver proof and uncirculated subscription programs. It now looks like the presidential dollars won't be in there so I'll sign up for those, too. I also bought a 2003 silver proof set and 1987 (my birth year) prestige proof set (w/ Constitution dollar) and 1987 mint set. Since I don't plan on buying a ton of mint products, I'll just cut back a little on junk silver and spend that money on my mint subscriptions and with the time I save (less time on eBay looking for silver) I'll go through rolls of change to fill my albums (I can't find a 1968 penny anywhere, it's the only penny I'm missing from 1940-1990. I also am missing about 7 cents from 1991-2006 (all Philadelphia) since I live in CA. I need to go back east and buy about 10 rolls of everything to get those P mint marks, they're pretty tough finds here. That post was pretty long and most of it had nothing to do with the original topic but oh well, I don't post here often but in the incredibly unlikely event someone noticed me before and wanted to know more about me, there you go![/QUOTE]
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