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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7924157, member: 10461&quot;]Fellow collectors:&nbsp; how often have you seen a neat coin, medal, or token, and thought, “<i>Man, I really like that, but unfortunately it doesn’t fit the primary focus for my collection...”</i> ?</p><p><br /></p><p>That used to happen to me.&nbsp; A lot.&nbsp; Because I like so many different types of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well here’s the answer.&nbsp; Listen to that little voice in your head, and make <i>what you like</i> your primary focus!&nbsp; Don’t be a “slave to the set”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the price of those key date coins getting you down?&nbsp; Fuhgeddaboutit!&nbsp; If you go <i>eclectic</i> and freestyle, you’re free of the need to buy something just because you need it, and because some empty hole in an album has to be filled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course if you go freestyle but <i>still</i> want to own a key date or two, go right ahead and buy ‘em, if you can afford it.&nbsp; Because you <i>want</i> ‘em.&nbsp; Not because you <i>need</i> ‘em, to complete some set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Case in point: there’s a <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/203522/coins-world-united-states-silver-half-dollar-barber-type-1915-philadelphia-mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/203522/coins-world-united-states-silver-half-dollar-barber-type-1915-philadelphia-mint" rel="nofollow"><b>1915 (-P) Barber half</b></a> above.&nbsp; That’s one of those tough Philadelphia key dates from the end of the series.&nbsp; For the same money, I could have gone with a much higher-grade Barber half than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s a decent coin, but in a relatively modest grade.&nbsp; But in this particular case, I chose to go with the scarcer key date coin in F15 rather than getting a higher grade common date coin in XF or AU or whatever the same amount of money would’ve bought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why?&nbsp; Because I <i>wanted</i> to, not because I <i>needed</i> the key date to finish a Barber half album.</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">(* I <i>did</i> do a VG-F Barber half album once upon a time, though, and enjoyed it, so I knew about those tougher, low-mintage, late-date Philly issues.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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