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Message:: [QUOTE="brokecoinguy, post: 2812916, member: 85775"]All great points here.  Once I finished my masters degree and got back in to collecting I often asked myself whether to go for quality or quantity, or where that threshold is.  I don't mind spending a small amount for a decent raw example to put in my 7070, in this case quantity over quality because I can pick up more coins more often.  For now maybe my limited budget is the reason for that.  I'll be honest I don't have any graded coins, most of my collection was inherited from my grandfathers raw and what I've added to it is also raw.  However, I will say that for particular coins I have been looking at nicer graded examples, hoping to step my collection up moving forward.  Obviously with a more expensive coin I'd be more inclined to purchase a graded example unless I felt my grading skills were sufficient to purchase a raw example. For me it's a hard line to draw, again on a smaller budget I usually have to weigh it as do I want to spend $50 a month on multiple decent examples or do I want to save for 6 months and have $300 or more to spend on a single really nice example?  Obviously there are more factors involved with that decision but I either add several decent examples to my collection monthly or I just get a good coin every 4-6 months.  As I begin to research and get more serious with the hobby I feel myself shifting more to the "quality over quantity" mindset.[/QUOTE]