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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brad T, post: 3307293, member: 99105&quot;]You are much like I.&nbsp; My collection is a hodgepodge of coins.&nbsp; I am a low budget collector as well.&nbsp; I do most of my buying on eBay.&nbsp; I live in a small town in Maine and the Coin Dealer here is very nice his inventory is rather on the high side.&nbsp; I was buying a bunch of stuff not know what I was doing.&nbsp; I finally, after learning a lot of what I bought had been cleaned and worthless started learning a little. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am extremely leery of buying a raw coin on eBay now as I am not experienced enough to be sure it is not a cleaned coin.&nbsp; So I started looking at the graded coins.&nbsp; They are very shiny lol.&nbsp; Kind of like seeing a squirrel they got me.&nbsp; As you said, one can pick them up for reasonable prices.&nbsp; The coins are beautiful and it is fun to collect them.&nbsp; I have been going for many of them.&nbsp; Not just nickels.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I mostly go for America the Beautiful series and the State Quarters.&nbsp; I try to be patient and place my max bid and if I win wonderful, if not I try again.&nbsp; I also have collected some pennies, nickels, dimes and regular quarters. I like to get them is silver if I can find them affordable.&nbsp; I have had better luck getting them in silver than I expected.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It has helped me a great deal focusing somewhat on an area and has made it more fun.&nbsp; I am a disabled veteran and a bit older so I know about the budget too.&nbsp; I think that makes it fun as well.&nbsp; The challenge to get what you want exists.&nbsp; I think that just being able to buy everything on a whim would take the excitement out of it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, I just noticed I wrote a book, sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have fun all,</p><p><br /></p><p>Brad[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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