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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1820676, member: 42773"]The group of targets really isn't that small. If you collected a type set of circulating mint issues you could move on to proofs, and then the vast variety of commemoratives and even Civil War and Hard Times tokens. If you had the resources, you could also add patterns. A US collector could amass a large set of different designs if he wanted to. It's a matter of choice. I think there's a tremendous value to the TPG's when it comes to authentication, but in order to stay in business they've had to create condition rarities. There was some news recently about a circulating Ike that broke some barrier, MS68 I think. Really. You mean to tell me that in all the years the TPG's have been grading Ike's, this was the first time they came across a 68? No doubt there was a flood of submissions from collectors hoping for that grade. A fool and his money are soon parted, and you know what? A fool deserves to be broke.[/QUOTE]