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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2750818, member: 1892&quot;]I&#039;m noodling the possibilities as I type, but one thing&#039;s for sure: with a $100 budget, I&#039;m looking for <i>one single coin</i> as opposed to multiples. There isn&#039;t much available in multiple quantities for $100 able to keep my interest in the long term, unless they were pieces contributing towards a directed set, and that&#039;s not the interpretation I read into the original question. </p><p><br /></p><p>The candidate coin will be reasonably liquid in its&#039; grade - if Mint State examples get really pricey, the &quot;average Joe&quot; collector is shopping nice XF-AU and that&#039;s where I&#039;m shopping. I&#039;m not expecting investment-level appreciation, but simply safe parking for the money. That means hitting the sweet spot for demand down the road, not necessarily S-VDB levels of demand, but the space where what collectors there are of the series want to buy them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I want it &quot;nice at the grade&quot; to the extent that I&#039;ll go a grade or two lower for a <i>good</i> one as opposed to &quot;buying the slab.&quot; Eye appeal is of great importance, because the first priority is <b>pleasing myself</b> with what I&#039;ve bought.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m probably looking towards the more common issues for a given series as opposed to the rarer ones. That way, I get a better grade, a nicer coin, and downstream appeal to both collectors of the series and typeset collectors, who will also usually be looking for &quot;nice in the series.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, obviously, resale is a stronger factor in my choice than it might be to the more &quot;purist&quot; collector. This is not because I feel I <b>should</b> use that consideration, but because I <b>can</b> use that consideration. Again excepting those concentrating on series collecting - and there&#039;s still overlap - there is no reason not to consider resale. In the vast majority of cases, factoring resale will not change the &quot;bang for the buck&quot; of your purchase, just possibly the amount of patience you&#039;ll have to apply to find the coin. And again, it&#039;s not about <i>making</i> money, it&#039;s about safely <i>parking</i> money. Nobody in their right mind plans on getting rich with coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having typed that wall of text, thinking the whole time, it occurs to me that I don&#039;t really need to go shopping for that coin, because I already own it. So, somebody else can have the $100. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]630060[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]630061[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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