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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jerry Salley, post: 2620, member: 358&quot;]Okay, I know nobody can tell somebody else what they should be collecting.</p><p>But here&#039;s the thing:</p><p>I&#039;ve finished my 20th century type set as good as I&#039;ll ever get it.&nbsp; (Not</p><p>everything&#039;s BU, but it&#039;s close enough.)&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a wild and unmanageable</p><p>collection of a little of everything else that I started back in the late</p><p>1950&#039;s when I was a teenager (okay, I&#039;m old.) SLQs, IHCs, Walking Liberties,</p><p>Franklins - almost everything that could be found in circulation at that</p><p>time plus a few BUs I bought before anybody used numbers grading them and</p><p>some mint and proof sets.</p><p>I feel like if I die right now (not planning to right now, but...) I&#039;m</p><p>leaving a real mess for somebody.</p><p>If you had such a collection and got interested in collecting again after</p><p>many years of not doing so, what would you do?</p><p>Specific questions:</p><p>1. Do I hang on to everything or sell/swap as I specialize?</p><p>2. With about $100 a month to spend on coins, what direction do I take?</p><p>3. How does anybody decide on a particular series anyway?&nbsp; I look at my</p><p>Walking Liberties and love the design.&nbsp; I figure I&#039;ve got a real good</p><p>Buffalo set, maybe I should complete it - it was my passion in my teens.&nbsp; On</p><p>the other hand, I started with Lincolns, and just haven&#039;t gotten them out of</p><p>my system.</p><p>4. Do I spend my $100 a month every month or save money to go after real</p><p>special coins?&nbsp; Somehow the idea of adding only one coin a year - even a</p><p>$1,200 dollar really special one - doesn&#039;t seem much like collecting.</p><p>I&#039;m not interested in investing as such, but I would like to know I&#039;m not</p><p>going to lose money for my heirs.&nbsp; I could go over the $100 if I got really</p><p>excited about it all, but for the past few months I haven&#039;t even spent that</p><p>much.</p><p>In the last two months or so I&#039;ve bought some Morgans, Walking Liberties,</p><p>Barbers, and lots of mint products.&nbsp; Collect the state quarters of course.</p><p>I&#039;m still fragmenting the whole thing.</p><p>I need some help in organizing my thinking.&nbsp; I can&#039;t believe I&#039;m the only</p><p>one who has ever faced this problem.&nbsp; How did you decide where to specilize?</p><p>I don&#039;t care if you&#039;re a dealer or a collector, just offer me some advice.</p><p>Or maybe I should just buy a better computer...</p><p><br /></p><p>Jerry S.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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