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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joshua Lemons, post: 25978728, member: 82388&quot;]I have never been a set builder.&nbsp; Even when I was a kid, I found the act of plugging wheat cents into a Whitman folder boring.&nbsp; I like variety and could care less about date and mintmark combinations as long as I had one of a coin, I was happy. This led me to more or less a type collection of U.S. coinage before my foray into world coinage.&nbsp; At this point I bought almost everything I found interesting and ended up with a collection approaching a thousand coins.&nbsp; I took a pause and realized I was buying tons of stuff, but most of it, I really didn&#039;t like. Over a few months I sold 95% of my collection and focused on the coins I really liked, which led me to my core collection today, German States small denominations, with a heavy focus on the 17th and 18th centuries.&nbsp; I do branch out occasionally, but I have found by buying better quality coins, I am buying less and I enjoy these coins much more. I rarely sell coins anymore these days unless I upgrade or can spare one for a better coin.&nbsp; We all go through these different phases of collecting.&nbsp; I would say over 90% of my collection is slabbed now and I just keep them in boxes from the respective graders. There&#039;s no right way to collect and the beauty of the hobby is you are able to be flexible, shift your focus and build a collection under just about any budget.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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