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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 56311, member: 708&quot;]Well if i was focusing on modern coins like Mercury Dimes then i could personally not live with coins less than EF. Admittedly this grade bias comes from the fact i was reaered on UK coins of that period which aren&#039;t half as pricey in EF or UNC grades. Heck i was attempting 20th century sixpences all dates in BU nothing less. But US coins are far more expensive, but i&#039;ve been brought up to see EF coins of the 20th century as the absolute minimum. It&#039;s hard to change that habit now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it&#039;s just me but i don&#039;t like coins that lack detail, i ditched my 17th/18th sixpence collection because i&#039;d bought some substandard coins (i.e&nbsp; low VF&#039;s instead of high VF&#039;s) thus i thought, well i&#039;m gonna have to upgrade about a third of what i&#039;ve got, that and the overall &#039;look&#039; of the set wasn&#039;t as uniform as i&#039;d like. Thus i got disheartened and sold every last one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>With Mercury dimes my general approach (and with most US coins), is to pick the common mint, most often P mint and just do a date run of P mint coins because it&#039;s cheaper and allows me to more realistically focus on the higher grades i like. You can also axe all the minor varieties such as overdates which also saves money!</p><p><br /></p><p>Or conversely you could pick the mint that didn&#039;t run as long in an series, often S mint in the US that i&#039;ve seen, but these are usually dearer! Although looking through the Redbook the S mint Mercs don&#039;t look too bad.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some may know i&#039;m currently working on a Nazi Germany 5 reichspfennig date set and i want them all in UNC/BU condition (which is tough), but because i&#039;m focusing just on the Berlin (A) mint, it means there&#039;s only a handful to get anyhow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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