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<p>[QUOTE="athrose, post: 1829490, member: 3403"]I was in your shoes several years ago and I made the decision to go with a series that I could realistically complete. The series had to be new enough that I would not have to mortgage the house to catch up with the coins already released and have a design that I thought was nice to look at. Third consideration was sufficient volume that would allow me to sell the coins should it ever be necessary. Fourth consideration was value appreciation. While I don't view my collections as investments, I don't want to loose money either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought about the American Gold Eagles series, but found it would take a small fortune to purchase every four coin set released to date. I thought about the presidential spouse series and even started to collect them, but a family need arose so I ended up selling them. I finally settled on the gold buffalo series. I have purchased only proofs to this point plus the 2008 uncirculated four coin set. The recent release of the reverse proof added some excitement to the series as well as the potential new low mintage 2013 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, only you can determine what it is that you want to collect as our collecting objectives are all unique.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="athrose, post: 1829490, member: 3403"]I was in your shoes several years ago and I made the decision to go with a series that I could realistically complete. The series had to be new enough that I would not have to mortgage the house to catch up with the coins already released and have a design that I thought was nice to look at. Third consideration was sufficient volume that would allow me to sell the coins should it ever be necessary. Fourth consideration was value appreciation. While I don't view my collections as investments, I don't want to loose money either. I thought about the American Gold Eagles series, but found it would take a small fortune to purchase every four coin set released to date. I thought about the presidential spouse series and even started to collect them, but a family need arose so I ended up selling them. I finally settled on the gold buffalo series. I have purchased only proofs to this point plus the 2008 uncirculated four coin set. The recent release of the reverse proof added some excitement to the series as well as the potential new low mintage 2013 coin. In the end, only you can determine what it is that you want to collect as our collecting objectives are all unique.[/QUOTE]
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