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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2782631, member: 10461"]This was a very modest, semi-casual Walking Liberty half collection in a Dansco #7160 album, collected in seven months between December of 2011 and July of 2012. The goal here was pretty simple: to collect a well-matched set of original grey coins with decent eye appeal, ideally in the F-VF range, but focusing more on nice original pieces with "The Look" than technical grade. Additionally, I was trying to obtain the more common-date pieces at or near melt value. In other words, this set was mostly just a fun way to set aside a little bit of bullion for a little while, but to try to build a coherent collection at the same time. Obviously the key- and semi-key dates were not to be obtainable at bullion prices, but I figured a large portion of the set should be. Below you will see how far I got in those seven months before, as so often happens with me, I sold the set and moved onto something else.  Though this was a short-lived, "sideline" collection, I did have fun with it, and as I bought most of the common coins near melt value, I did OK when I sold them. "CU" in the provenance notes refers to the Collectors Universe site.  Images were mostly done on my old flatbed scanner, which actually did a mostly decent job on grey circulated silver like this. [ATTACH=full]643627[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]