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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 6315306, member: 27832"]And he's right -- but if that's your goal, it seems like you're more interested in a business, not a hobby. Or maybe it's better to say your hobby is profit, not coins. It's actually a bit of a sore topic for me, because as a kid, a lot of what I heard about coins was "you can get this nickel in change for five cents, but it's worth a dollar!" That's still an uncomfortably large part of my mindset as I'm dealing with coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But my two main rebuttals to Travers' statement would be: 1) High-quality key dates may appreciate more and be easier to sell, but buying and selling coins is still a high-overhead process. The dealers or auctioneers have to get their cut. 2) Until you've handled lots of examples from a series, you can't tell which ones are the highest quality. If you start out buying the keys, you're likely to unwittingly end up with substandard or even problem examples.[/QUOTE]