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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brotherluv, post: 1268448, member: 32981&quot;]You can collect some graded NGC or PCGS coins in a variety of slabs pretty cheaply. </p><p><br /></p><p>For whatever reason people slab common coins not worth the cost of the plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently, I picked up six Buff Nickels in G6, VG8, VG10, VF20, and even a few body bagged coins tagged VG Details &quot;Harshly cleaned&quot;, VF Details &quot;OBV Improperly cleaned&quot;... all for about $15 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>I plan to keep buying a couple each month in additiopn to a variety of MS grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just was looking at a few later Wheat Lincolns in MS64 and 65 packaged in one fleabay auction for less than $50... but decided to keep my focus on Buffs</p><p><br /></p><p>With careful shopping and care for strike quality, many common mint state coins can be had for not much more. </p><p><br /></p><p>If knowledge is what you are seeking, then it helps to have professionally graded coins in hand when reading the books.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spending your first few hundred bucks on a wide variety of grades, with focus on quality of strike, makes more sense than a single coin graded MS 65 in the long term.</p><p><br /></p><p>Literally each time I pick up a Buff Nickel, I see something new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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