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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2779330, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This raw VG-F Barber half collection in a Dansco #7150 album was begun around Christmas of 2010. My minimum grade for this set was Very Good (VG8), with at least a letter or two in &quot;LIBERTY&quot; visible. When I could, I tried to get as close to Fine (F12) condition (with a full &quot;LIBERTY&quot; on the headband) as possible, without actually paying the premium for F12 coins.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Another goal was to limit myself to original grey or grey-brown coins. I was after coins with &quot;The Look&quot;. It&#039;s hard to explain exactly what &quot;The Look&quot; is, but you collectors of circulated Barber coinage will know what I mean by that. It&#039;s sort of like what I refer to as &quot;Circulation Cameo&quot; (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/">CircCam</a>) coins, with darker fields and lighter devices, but these aren&#039;t always true CircCams. Let&#039;s just say it&#039;s the wholesome look of a coin that did plenty of time in circulation, but was otherwise not messed with too much. Not all of my coins below have &quot;The Look&quot;, but this was an unfinished work.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">One added bonus besides the relative affordability of VG coins was that circulated silver like this actually came out looking (mostly) OK on my old scanner, so I didn&#039;t have the photography woes my substandard camera skills usually caused. Almost all of these images were done on a scanner, though in a few cases I posted the original sellers&#039; photos. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">On to the album, or at least as far as I got with it.&nbsp; (I did not complete the set, but did well when I sold it, so looking out for nice original coins at a good price worked out well.)</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/dhIAAOSwVFlUB3BF/s-l225.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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