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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 15267, member: 1113&quot;]I don&#039;t know that I can answer it, but I&#039;ll try.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as small coppers go, I actually only collect small cents from 1857-1933 -- I don&#039;t collect anything from 1934 onward -- and currently I&#039;m trying to get all of them in XF/AU condition.&nbsp; In my case, I &quot;inherited&quot; a lot of hand-me-down well-circulated Lincolns from my dad when I was maybe 6 or 7, which is what got me started.&nbsp; I expanded to Indians after that, and while I was a kid it was still mostly G/VG coins.&nbsp; Eventually I started working through college, which let me expand to Flying Eagles and expand my horizons to F/VF coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, we all grow older and if we&#039;re fortunate as I&#039;ve been, disposable income increases a bit.&nbsp; So then I started working up to XF/AU coins throughout.&nbsp; One at a time I bought tougher dates like the 1864-L, 1869-1872 series, 1909-S Lincoln, 1924-D and 1931-S, all in XF/AU grades.&nbsp; Years ago it was a major struggle to raise $300, for example, to buy an AU 1871 cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was less than a month ago that I finally decided to pull the trigger, eat the big bucks and start going after the keys which remained an empty hole for more than 30 years.&nbsp; So in the space of 72 hours at the beginning of this month, I snagged an NGC XF-40 1877 cent (my avatar) and a PCGS AU-50 1914-D.&nbsp; I&#039;ll eat ramen noodles for a month, but I don&#039;t care.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The point&#039;s not to brag about my recent purchases, but to show what can come from humble beginnings in filling a cheap &quot;penny album&quot; with any coin.&nbsp; The time was once when something as simple as a VG 1917-D cent could really get me stoked.&nbsp; But we evolve and grow. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that we all collect what makes us happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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