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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2535622, member: 10461&quot;]I should add that if were &quot;collecting within my means&quot;, I&#039;d still be sticking circulated Lincoln cents or G-VG Indian Heads in a folder, or plucking Statehood quarters from circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>People of my economic means really don&#039;t have any business collecting $500+ coins, unless they develop some patience and smart strategies.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one reason I&#039;m a World coin collector (aside from the fact that World coins go farther back in time and are inherently more interesting and often more beautiful than US coins).&nbsp; There is a lot more &quot;bang for the buck&quot; on the &quot;Darkside&quot;!&nbsp; And &quot;bang for the buck&quot; is one plank in my platform.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another way you can collect big(-ger) ticket coins if you&#039;re a peasant like me is to build up a collection of more modestly priced stuff (like, for instance, the VG Barber half set I worked on for a while, or the VG-F Walkers, the predecimal Irish set, etc).&nbsp; Then, when you&#039;ve got your &quot;subcollection&quot; complete or nearly so, you sell it and build up enough to buy <i>one</i> bigger coin for your &quot;primary&quot; set.&nbsp; For example, the $2,500-ish Dahlonega quarter-eagle in my set is something I could&#039;ve never bought under almost any circumstances, but I sold off a nearly complete type set of 1901 British Empire Victoria coins (forty-plus pieces, many quite nice), and funneled the proceeds from that into a single coin (the 1842-D half eagle).</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s how it&#039;s done.&nbsp; A little bit at a time, very gradually.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I think the &quot;buy the best you can afford&quot; motto is sound advice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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