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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 2115537, member: 21309&quot;]I&#039;m a collector who usually preferred MS70 coins when possible.</p><p>For example, I bought five sets of the 2011 ASE limited release coins then sent the unopened box to NGC for grading.</p><p>Did some eBay shopping and wound up with&nbsp; four sets of early release MS/PF70 sets.(maybe five sets don&#039;t remember)&nbsp; The sets graded MS/PF70 are worth significantly more then ungraded or 69s. I no longer buy coins.</p><p>I collect foreign currency and will start collecting US currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point being people collect what the want.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been at shows where I&#039;ve seen&nbsp; people only buy 69 grade coins because they don&#039;t sell for much more then raw in a lot of cases.&nbsp; Others only buy 70s and others only buy ungraded.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started buying graded coins because I ran out of storage space due to&nbsp; the Mint packaging.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought an AGE HR that nests in a nice wooden box about eight inches tall.&nbsp; The coin goes in a PCGS storage tray and the beautiful box goes the basement.&nbsp; Waste.</p><p>The five coin 2011 coin set boxes occupy a lot of space.&nbsp; The five</p><p>sets of graded coins go into a PCGS storage boxes.&nbsp; The Mint boxes go in the basement.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider myself to be a collector first with an eye for investments.</p><p>They are not always incompatible terms.</p><p>I collect what want I and make no judgments about what others collect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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