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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 339795, member: 4552&quot;]It appears no one said WELCOME TO THE FORUMS. </p><p>As noted, purchase a book called the RED BOOK. If you don&#039;t want to spend a lot of money on books just yet, check out flea markets, used book stores, etc for an older issue. The information on what is what is still the same. </p><p>As to why you see what you see. I noticed you mentioned you did not start this collection. I would presume you either inherited, purchased or was given the entire collection. Possibly could have stolen it too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Regardless you may well be correct that&nbsp; a duplicate is better than the one in the set or album. As a coin collector for many, many years AND being old and a little lazy, I do the following: Example is say Lncoln Cents. I have 10 completed sets in Whitman Classic Albums and several boxes of 2x2&#039;s for duplicates. So now I go to a coin show and purchase a 1931S Lincoln Cent in MS-65. I go home and notice set #1, 2 and 3 all have the same or better. So now this new coin goes into #4 and the one from 4 to 5, from 5 to 6, 6 to 7. By this time I am tired but persist to maybe #9. Then I say to myself, SELF, are you nuts? So then the last one now goes into a 2x2 and is put into the box of 2x2 duplicates. Note set #10 now has a lesser coin than the duplicate in the 2x2 box. Same with such coins as Mercury Dimes, Buffalo Nickels, etc.&nbsp; </p><p>To sum it up whoever had that collection originally was probably like me. Who cares what set #8 looks like anyway. I&#039;ve got over 100 albums and get tired easily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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