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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AnemicOak, post: 283087, member: 5224&quot;]And that&#039;s really the way to do it.&nbsp; Collect what interests you, in the way you want to collect it.&nbsp; For a while I used various albums, etc., but found it wasn&#039;t for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got a Lincoln set that&#039;s almost complete (missing 3 or 4) &amp; I&#039;ve got a Jefferson set that&#039;s complete AU/BU including proofs, but to tell the truth the whole every date &amp; mint mark type of set kinda bores me.&nbsp; I sometimes just buy something at random, because it looks cool, catches my eye, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I&#039;m doing now, along with buying whatever else strikes me...</p><p><br /></p><p>Imperial Romans - An every emperor style &quot;type set&quot;, plus any late roman bronzes that strike my fancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins from Nassau (Germany) - My ancestors came from Nassau to Texas in 1845 so I collect coins from there that are pre-1845 (I also end up buying other German stuff I like)</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins from my birth year - I usually just pick these up when I run across them cheap (most recent in a Cook Islands $2 coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>US Type Set - I like a lot of the older US coin designs &amp; this lets me collect nice examples in a somewhat structured way.&nbsp; I&#039;ve based it around the Dansco 7070 list although I&#039;m not using their album &amp; may add or subtract as I want.</p><p><br /></p><p>World Coins - This is really a what ever catches my eye category.</p><p><br /></p><p>World Currency - Just whatever world notes I run across from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notgeld - Specifically German emergency currency from around the time of WWI[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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