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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 24866363, member: 90692&quot;]Your interests will dictate what coins you focus on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I check all coins from circulation.&nbsp; My experience of 61 years of collecting tells me what to avoid.&nbsp; My interests have changed as well, I no longer save any U.S. coin minted after 2021, with a few exceptions, and I don’t save shield cents, nickels or dimes anymore.&nbsp; You will find yourself going through a similar metamorphosis, as your experience progresses as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing you must keep in mind:&nbsp; Just because a coin looks brand-new does not make it a candidate for keeping.&nbsp; Modern die pairs strike a million coins each, with polishing clean-ups on top, before they are retired.&nbsp; Most business strike dies are overused.&nbsp; So, you commonly see “bright and shiny” coins that are rife with die deterioration or weak designs, with surface flaws and defects that have no value and, in my estimation, no business being in my stewardship.</p><p>…imo…Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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