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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bahabully, post: 842853, member: 17555&quot;]If you consider a hobby as an investment.. then coin&#039;s are the way to go, easily.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, I don&#039;t think the process described here is a sound investment strategy.&nbsp; Ebay if ripe with shill bidding sellers and groups of sellers.&nbsp;&nbsp; I could name a couple of power selling, highly marketed sellers on the bay that appear to always have 15+ bidders on each of thier coins, and my experience with these sellers is that thier product is sub-par and highly overpriced... they have either found an infinite source of novice heavily monied collectors, or they are passing these coins back and forth within a significantly large dealer group and hoping a few novice collectors jump in and buy a few coins during each auction at heavily inflated (shilled) prices.&nbsp; Point being, you can&#039;t always trust the ebay auction results... in general they are sound, but I&#039;d use the lower 60% average rather than the entire population to find my expected sell price (unless you plan on selling with shill bids also).&nbsp; </p><p>Also, MS67 morgan&#039;s is not the right place for novices.... nor is it the right place for intermediate&#039;s either... if you game is investment, then leave the high end stuff alone... </p><p>If you a novice and want to play on the bay to make some money, than a good way to learn is to buy a bag of 5000 cents for a fair price on the bay (I think around 220&#039;ish or so).. divide em&#039; up, search em&#039; for key dates and varieties, practice grading them,,, and then sell the divided lots back to the &#039;bay (and learn the in&#039;s and out&#039;s of selling).&nbsp; You should limit any losses and maybe make a bit while pocketing a few nice keepers and learning the lincoln cent in greater detail.</p><p>You are simply NOT going to jump into the high end coin game on the &#039;bay and do anything that can be considered investing... maybe collecting (ie - enjoying the coin at a fiscal loss).</p><p>To your original question:&nbsp; I&#039;d go with the Buffalo&#039;s ; )... any grade certified key date&#039;s only if &quot;investing&quot;.. high grade common&#039;s if collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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