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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1411746, member: 24544&quot;]Condor, that is amazing!!!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To the original poster, I think it largely depends on your collection goals and your post brings up the importance of setting them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am working on a late date variety set .&nbsp; I buy the nicest coins I can and I shoot for high quality coins for the grade, but with over 300 varieties between 1840-1857 I just can&#039;t get MS examples.&nbsp; &nbsp; I have some, but the majority of my coins are in the EF range because even at $100 per coin that works out to $30,000 plus for the.&nbsp; Putting that collection together over 5 years would run my 6,000 per year or 500 per month.&nbsp; If I had the same goal and only bought MS coins it would be more like $300,000 + for the collection!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if my collection interest was just a date set of 1840 to 1857 then I could do 17 MS examples at around $800 per coin and spend around 14,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, buying the highest quality coin in any grade is a good idea, but what grade to buy, or how much to spend on any one coin, largely depends on what your goal is.&nbsp; Putting together variety sets of large cents is a quantity goal, so unless your are rich, it&#039;s a lower grade endeavor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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