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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8241311, member: 100459&quot;]Boy, have I missed the boat on coin collecting.&nbsp; I was 62 when I got my father&#039;s coin collection.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t the greatest collection, but it took a lot of time to go over each piece and go to some reference books I found to just find out what I had.&nbsp; That took over 2 years.&nbsp; Anyway, I bought some coin magazines to see if they were worth anything.&nbsp; Most of them weren&#039;t, but I found out I should put them all in a 2X2 to protect them.&nbsp; There were no gold pieces and few silver pieces, but my interest grew.&nbsp; I went to an LCS (I found out what that meant, finally.)&nbsp; I bought a 1895 $10 Liberty Gold Coin and a 1904 $20 Liberty Gold Coin.&nbsp; The owner told me he was going to a coin show and do I want to have my new Gold Coins graded. Huh?&nbsp; Graded? What was that?&nbsp; He explained it to me.&nbsp; He had them graded.&nbsp; The $10 Liberty came back an MS61, but my shock was that the the 1904 came back Details, OBV Scratched.&nbsp; The store owner offered to buy it back, but I decided to keep them. My next two purchases was a RAW 2010W American One Ounce Gold RAW coin and a 2009 MMIX Ultra High Relief Gold Coin.&nbsp; I think I paid $1,000 for the 2010 and $1,300 for the 2009 coin.&nbsp; The 2009 Ultra High Relief Gold Coin was graded MS68. I thought that was pretty good until I told someone about it and I was told it wasn&#039;t worth much unless it was MS70.&nbsp; At that point, I decided to do my own research and the hell with everyone else&#039;s ideas about coins value.&nbsp; I still make mistakes, but I don&#039;t brood over it anymore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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